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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 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
Lower TDP (14W vs 80W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1480MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +4636%
3.789 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 100M
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1063 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz

Memory

256MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
4
SM Count
10
32
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

14W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

G96C
GPU Name
GP106
-
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
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