AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +580%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

VS

GeForce GT 120M

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

G96C

Sun LE

GPU Variant

N10P-GV1

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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