Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+3067%
2534
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Dec 2008
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
14W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
G96C
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Tesla
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
55 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.314 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
