Radeon 530X Mobile vs GeForce GT 130M
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1342 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 1.16 | no data |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) |
| GPU code name | G96C | Polaris 24 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 8 January 2009 (16 years ago) | 18 April 2017 (8 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 cores | 32 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | 730 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1024 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | 1,550 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 23 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 9.600 | 24.58 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.096 TFLOPS | 0.7864 TFLOPS |
| Gigaflops | 144 | no data |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 96 KB |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | 128 KB |
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 size | medium sized | no data |
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | no data |
| SLI options | 2-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 type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | Up to 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3) | 36 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI | No outputs |
| Multi monitor support | + | no data |
| HDMI | + | - |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 | no data |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 8 January 2009 | 18 April 2017 |
| Chip lithography | 55 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 23 Watt | 50 Watt |
GT 130M has 117.4% lower power consumption.
530X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and Radeon 530X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.
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