NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 980MX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +4800%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1664

Shading Units

32

104

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96C

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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