NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (12W vs 14W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520M
+77%
0.142 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 100M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.480 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.920 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
142.1 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
11.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
12W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF119
-
GPU Variant
N12P-GV-B-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
