NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 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, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 5.9x more texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • 2.9x better floating-point performance: 117.5 gflops vs 40 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1008 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 91
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 March 2009 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed 738 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 11.81 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 117.5 gflops vs 40 gflops
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 160 vs 91

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 40 vs 32
  • 4.2x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 52
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 40 vs 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 vs 52

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
160
91
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
52
247
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
PassMark - G3D Mark 160 91
PassMark - G2D Mark 52 247
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)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

Essentials

Architecture Tesla TeraScale
Code name G96C M82
Launch date 10 March 2009 7 January 2008
Place in performance rating 684 685
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 738 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 117.5 gflops 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 32 40
Texture fill rate 11.81 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 16.13 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1008 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2 DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Powerplay