NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M +1636%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

-

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G96C

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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