NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M470
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M470
+1820%
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 100M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
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
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Emerald
-
GPU Variant
Emerald 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
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
