Arc Pro A30M vs GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated348
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.20
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameG96CDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 December 2008 (15 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 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 cores321024
Core clock speed500 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors314 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate8.000128.0
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS4.096 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1664
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed792 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.34 GB/s128.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2008 8 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 50 Watt

GT 120M Mac Edition has 257.1% lower power consumption.

Arc Pro A30M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and Arc Pro A30M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while Arc Pro A30M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
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