Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics vs GeForce GT 120M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1262not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.91no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG96CBeema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years 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 cores32128
Core clock speed500 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data300 MHz
Number of transistors314 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate8.0003.976
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.1272 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 100 Watt

GT 120M has 614.3% lower power consumption.

R2 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120M and Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
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AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics
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