Arctic Sound-M vs GeForce GT 130M

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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)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameG96CArctic Sound
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)2022 (2 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 cores328192
Core clock speed600 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors314 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600230.4
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS14.75 TFLOPS
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs8128
TMUs16256

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS
SLI options2-way-

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 typeGDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)1.23 TB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsSingle Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 500 Watt

GT 130M has 2073.9% lower power consumption.

Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 450% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 130M is a notebook card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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