AMD FirePro M4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 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
AMD FirePro M4000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M4000
+763%
0.691 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Dec 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
512
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
21.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
43.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
33W
TDP
14W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Chelsea
GPU Name
G96C
Chelsea XT GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
