Radeon R7 Graphics vs GeForce GT 130M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG96CSpectre
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)11 January 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 cores32512
Core clock speed600 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data980 MHz
Number of transistors314 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate9.60031.36
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS1.004 TFLOPS
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs88
TMUs1632

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 sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)no data
Shared memory-no data

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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.0
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 11 January 2014
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 15 Watt

R7 Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and Radeon R7 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 130M is a notebook card while Radeon R7 Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
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