GeForce GT 130 OEM vs GT 120 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG96CG94B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 March 2009 (15 years ago)10 March 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3248
Core clock speed738 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors314 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate11.8112.00
Floating-point processing power0.1175 TFLOPS0.12 TFLOPS
ROPs812
TMUs1624

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed504 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth16.13 GB/s24 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.11.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

GT 120 OEM has 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120 OEM and GeForce GT 130 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
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