AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
37.8x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
320x more pipelines: 1280 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
75.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 47
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 274

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 1 June 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569 vs 47
PassMark - G2D Mark	496 vs 274

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

10x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3569

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

496

274

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569	47
PassMark - G2D Mark	496	274
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	51.181
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1121.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	256.99
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Wimbledon	G72
Launch date	24 April 2012	1 June 2006
Place in performance rating	609	612
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	4
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-III
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	700 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	64
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II