Radeon RX Vega 3 vs GeForce GT 120 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated776
Place by popularitynot in top-10078
Power efficiencyno data13.81
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameG96CPicasso
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date10 March 2009 (15 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32192
Core clock speed738 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1001 MHz
Number of transistors314 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate11.8112.01
Floating-point processing power0.1175 TFLOPS0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs1612

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed504 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16.13 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 March 2009 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120 OEM and Radeon RX Vega 3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 120 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
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