NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 96 vs 32
  • 2.9x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 461 vs 151
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 93 vs 32
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2623 vs 2273
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2623 vs 2273
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2011 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 9.6 billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 32
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 461 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 93 vs 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2623 vs 2273
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2623 vs 2273

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

  • Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
461
151
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
93
32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2623
2273
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2623
2273
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark 461 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 93 32
Geekbench - OpenCL 1899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2623 2273
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2623 2273

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G96
Launch date 5 January 2011 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1534 1548
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 32
Texture fill rate 9.6 billion / sec 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
PCI-E 2.0