Radeon R5 (Kaveri) vs GeForce GT 130M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1048
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code nameG96CKaveri
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)4 June 2014 (10 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 cores32256
Core clock speed600 MHz514 MHz
Boost clock speedno data626 MHz
Number of transistors314 million2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattno data
Texture fill rate9.600no data
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no data

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 sizedmedium sized
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHzno data
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)no data
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 data
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 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GT 130M 1629
R5 (Kaveri) 3011
+84.8%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 4 June 2014
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

R5 (Kaveri) has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and Radeon R5 (Kaveri). We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
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