AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +1588%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94B

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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