NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 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 X1800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 32 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 130

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 1 March 2006
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	160 vs 130

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

4.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 52

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 52

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

130

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon X1800
PassMark - G3D Mark	160	130
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 X1800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R500
Code name	G96C	M58
Launch date	10 March 2009	1 March 2006
Place in performance rating	684	686
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32	12
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	321 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
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-III
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.13 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	256
Shared memory		0