NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 29W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 9650M GS
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 100M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
14W
TDP
29W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS1-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
