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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E8870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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 75W)
AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon E8870 +1820%
1.536 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Dec 2008
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 100M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

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-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

14W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

G96C
GPU Name
Saturn
-
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
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