NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +266%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 100

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

792 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.02GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

12

ROPs

16

-

48 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

14.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94B

GPU Name

R680

-

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

196 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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