AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E8870 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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 E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +1820%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Dec 2008

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96C

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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