NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs ATI Radeon X600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and ATI Radeon X600 PRO 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 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
  • Around 68% higher memory clock speed: 1008 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 67
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 March 2009 vs 1 September 2004
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 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 160 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 PRO

  • Around 39% lower typical power consumption: 36 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 252 vs 52
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 36 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 252 vs 52

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
160
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
52
252
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM ATI Radeon X600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 160 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 52 252
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 X600 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 9
Code name G96C RV370
Launch date 10 March 2009 1 September 2004
Place in performance rating 674 677
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 36 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x DVI, 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 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1008 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type DDR2 DDR