NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Radeon X550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Radeon X550 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 X550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.4x more texture fill rate: 11.81 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1008 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 166 vs 51

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 1 July 2005
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	166 vs 51

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550

5.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 51

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	266 vs 51

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

266

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	ATI Radeon X550
PassMark - G3D Mark	166	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	51	266
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 X550
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 9
Code name	G96C	RV370
Launch date	10 March 2009	1 July 2005
Place in performance rating	637	639
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.13 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR