AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile 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

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (14W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +723%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

G96C

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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