NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W6170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
FirePro W6170M
+2363%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2014
GeForce 100M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
896
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Emerald
-
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
