ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +1300%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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GeForce GT 120M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jun 2009

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

G96C

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

N10P-GV1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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