AMD Radeon R5 A230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 A230 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 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 R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A230 +583%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Dec 2008

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

17.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

547.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

34.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

G96C

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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