NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M +255%

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

GeForce GT 120M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G96C

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

N10P-GV1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

116 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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