NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs AMD Radeon E8870

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +1820%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 100M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Saturn

N10P-GV1

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

Board Design

14W

TDP

75W

-

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

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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