NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q
+9295%
7.516 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
1290 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
20
32
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
93.95 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
234.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
117.4 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.516 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
234.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
150W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GP104
-
GPU Variant
N17E-G3-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
314 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
