NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +2780%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 100M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Neptune

N10P-GV1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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