GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs 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)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG96CAD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores329728
Core clock speed600 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors314 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600442.3
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS28.31 TFLOPS
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs8112
TMUs16304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)448.0 GB/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 DVIPortable Device Dependent
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 80 Watt

GT 130M has 247.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
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