NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X 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 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +3601%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

VS

Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 100M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Amethyst

N10P-GV1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

5 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

14W

TDP

250W

-

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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