AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M270X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +1820%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Dec 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

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

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96C

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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