GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider Radeon R5 230 |
56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R5 230
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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GPU Name | G94B () | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 196 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
Transistors | 505 million | vs | 370 million |
Shaders | 48 | vs | 160 |
Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
ROPs | 12 | vs | 4 |
TMUs | 24 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 792 MHz
1584 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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TDP | 75 watts | vs | 19 watts |
Release Date | 12 Dec 2008 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better