GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 230 OEM

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Dec 2008
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
Radeon R5 230 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 230 OEM
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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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 230 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 230 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 130 Mac EditionRadeon R5 230 OEM
GPU NameG94B ()vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size196 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs370 million
Shaders48vs160
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs12vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 130 Mac EditionRadeon R5 230 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed792 MHz
1584 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 130 Mac EditionRadeon R5 230 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date12 Dec 2008vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
    14.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
    38.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    10.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
    144.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better