NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and ATI Radeon X850 XT. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

G96CGPU NameR480
TeslaArchitectureR400
TSMCFoundryTSMC
55 nmProcess Size130 nm
314 millionTransistors160 million
121 mm²Die Size297 mm²

Graphics Card

Dec 12th, 2008Release DateDec 1st, 2004
GeForce 100MFamilyRadeon R400 PCIe
(X850)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 9MPredecessorRadeon R300
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

256 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus256 bit
25.34 GB/sBandwidth34.56 GB/s

Performance

4.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate8.320 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.320 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

792 MHz
1584 Mbps effective
Memory Clock540 MHz
1080 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock520 MHz

Render Config

16TMUs16
8ROPs16

Board Design

14 WThermal design power (TDP)69 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.1 (10_0)DirectX9.0b (9_2)
3.3OpenGL2.1
1.1OpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A