NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX +116%

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G96C

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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