AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 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 R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +2352%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 120M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jun 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

61.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.962 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

122.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G96C

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N10P-GV1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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