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GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

The GeForce GT 130 has a clock frequency of 500 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 250 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 48 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M265X, which comes with a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M265X will be 500% quicker than the GeForce GT 130 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 MB/sec
Difference: 60000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M265X is quite a bit (more or less 92%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X 23000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11000 (92%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M265X is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X 9200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1200 (15%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 130 Radeon R9 M265X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 10, 2009 May 1 2014
Code Name G94b Venus Pro
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 500 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 500 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 12000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12000 Mtexels/sec 23000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 9200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 640
Texture Mapping Units 24 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 130

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Radeon R9 M265X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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