Radeon 890M vs GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 312 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 100.00 |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) |
| GPU code name | G96C | Strix Point |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 12 December 2008 (16 years ago) | 15 July 2024 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | 1024 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 2900 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | 34,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 8.000 | 185.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.08 TFLOPS | 5.939 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | 64 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 16 |
| L0 Cache | no data | 256 KB |
| L1 Cache | no data | 256 KB |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | 2 MB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 792 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.34 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 1.1 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 12 December 2008 | 15 July 2024 |
| Chip lithography | 55 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 15 Watt |
GT 120M Mac Edition has 7.1% lower power consumption.
Radeon 890M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.
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