NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 160 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	160 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

4.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 249 vs 52

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	249 vs 52

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

249

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
PassMark - G3D Mark	160	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	52	249
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	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96C	C61
Launch date	10 March 2009	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	684	687
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	11.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	314 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	PCI
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
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