NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile 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 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +1958%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 100M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

792 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.34GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Polaris 23

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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