NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A220
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A220 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (14W vs 35W)
AMD Radeon R5 A220 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 A220
+210%
0.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 100M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
14W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Caicos
-
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
