AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +1532%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 120M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G96C

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N10P-GV1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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