GeForce GT 120M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 120M sales 11 February 2009. This is a laptop graphics card based on a G9x architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR2, GDDR3 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 23 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 120M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | G9x (2007−2010) | |
| GPU code name | N10P-GV1 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 11 February 2009 (15 years ago) | |
| Current price | $110 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GT 120M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 120M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 23 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 8.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 80 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GT 120M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 120M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR2, GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 120M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GT 120M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 120M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
Send your test results of GeForce GT 120M.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 120M is Radeon HD 8400.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GT 120M according to our statistics.
