NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 100

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

792 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.02GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

14.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94B

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

196 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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