AMD Radeon R7 M270DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M270DX and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 738 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 233 vs 51
  • 5.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 962 vs 166
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 June 2014 vs 10 March 2009
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 738 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 233 vs 51
PassMark - G3D Mark 962 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
233
51
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
962
166
Name AMD Radeon R7 M270DX NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark 233 51
PassMark - G3D Mark 962 166
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 179.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1813.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 38.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 757.451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1731

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 M270DX NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Tesla
Code name Topaz G96C
Launch date 11 June 2014 10 March 2009
Place in performance rating 639 636
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 940 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 738 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Transistor count 3,100 million 314 million
Floating-point performance 117.5 gflops
Pipelines 32
Texture fill rate 11.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 16.13 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1008 MHz
Memory type DDR2