NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 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 3850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 9.28 GTexel / s

Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s vs 9.28 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
3.2x better floating-point performance: 371.2 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 49% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1008 MHz
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 366 vs 169
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 248 vs 80

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	320 vs 32
Floating-point performance	371.2 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1008 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	366 vs 169
PassMark - G2D Mark	248 vs 80

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

169

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

248

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G3D Mark	169	366
PassMark - G2D Mark	80	248
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 3850
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	M88
Launch date	10 March 2009	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	652	653
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops	371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	320
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s	9.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.13 GB / s	48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory		0