NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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 - 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 680 MHz
4.3x more texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
2.2x better floating-point performance: 117.5 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 93

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	160 vs 93

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

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: 250 vs 52

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	40 vs 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	250 vs 52

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G3D Mark	160	93
PassMark - G2D Mark	52	250
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 3470
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	M82
Launch date	10 March 2009	7 January 2008
Place in performance rating	674	675
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	40
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s	2.72 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