NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M 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
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (12W vs 14W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
+77%
0.142 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 500M
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
4
48
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
12W
TDP
14W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
G96C
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
