NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Radeon E2400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Radeon E2400 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 E2400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 600 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
2.4x better floating-point performance: 117.5 gflops vs 48 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 166 vs 52

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops vs 48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	166 vs 52

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E2400

Around 25% higher pipelines: 40 vs 32
2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1008 MHz
5.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 287 vs 51

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	40 vs 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1008 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	287 vs 51

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E2400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

287

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Radeon E2400
PassMark - G3D Mark	166	52
PassMark - G2D Mark	51	287
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 E2400
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	RV610
Launch date	10 March 2009	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	606	609
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	32	40
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	180 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	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.13 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3