ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 vs GeForce GT 130M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1267not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.13no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameG96CM68
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)11 January 2007 (17 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 cores3244
Core clock speed600 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors314 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattno data
Texture fill rate9.6004.800
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs812
TMUs1612

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 sizedlarge
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHz480 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)30.72 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 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)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL2.12.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 11 January 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm

GT 130M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and Mobility Radeon X1900. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
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