NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

  • Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2273 vs 1860
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2273 vs 1860
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2273 vs 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2273 vs 1860

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
  • Around 45% better floating-point performance: 116.16 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 213 vs 151
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 49 vs 32
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 48 vs 32
Floating-point performance 116.16 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 213 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 49 vs 32

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
213
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
32
49
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2273
1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2273
1860
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
PassMark - G3D Mark 151 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 32 49
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2273 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2273 1860
Geekbench - OpenCL 6433

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla 2.0
Code name G96 GT216
Launch date 15 June 2009 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1562 1563
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 1210 MHz
Floating-point performance 80 gflops 116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 32 48
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 486 million
CUDA cores 48
Gigaflops 174

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

PCI-E 2.0
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0