NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM NVS 5400M 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 35W)
NVIDIA NVS 5400M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
NVS 5400M
+216%
0.253 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 100M
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.640 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.56 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
253.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
21.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
N13P-NS1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
116 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
