GeForce GT 120M vs Radeon HD 6510G2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1021not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameno dataG96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)15 June 2009 (15 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 cores40032
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data14 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.08 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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 sizedmedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 15 June 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

HD 6510G2 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6510G2 and GeForce GT 120M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6510G2
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