NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4570

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4570 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4570

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 58% higher memory clock speed: 1584 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 25 Watt
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4570

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
Around 30% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 80 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 32
Floating-point performance	104 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4570
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	RV710
Launch date	12 December 2008	25 November 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	80
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.34 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2