NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Radeon 2100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Radeon 2100 IGP 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 Radeon 2100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 166 vs 60

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 4 March 2008
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	166 vs 60

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 2100 IGP

5.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 286 vs 51

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	286 vs 51

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 2100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

286

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Radeon 2100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	166	60
PassMark - G2D Mark	51	286
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 Radeon 2100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	G96C	RS740
Launch date	10 March 2009	4 March 2008
Place in performance rating	606	608
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	120 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
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