NVIDIA NVS 5200M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (14W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
NVS 5200M
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Dec 2008
NVS Mobile
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
96
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
10.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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-
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
20.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
14W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GF117
GPU Name
G96C
N13M-NS1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
116 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
