AMD Radeon E8860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E8860

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 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 E8860 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 37W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8860 +900%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Dec 2008

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

37W

TDP

14W

-

1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

G96C

Venus MCM

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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