NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs AMD Radeon HD 6510G2

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking983not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameno dataN10P-GV1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 June 2011 (12 years old)11 February 2009 (15 years old)
Current priceno data$110

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40032
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point performanceno data80 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6510G2 and GeForce GT 120M 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 sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 typeno dataGDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 14 June 2011 11 February 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

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