NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
0.144 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
+733%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 100
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.02GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
800
24
TMUs
40
12
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
14.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94B
GPU Name
RV770
-
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
