UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) vs GeForce GT 120M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated745
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.70
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameG96CIce Lake G1 Gen. 11
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)28 May 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 cores3232
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors314 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt12-25 Watt
Texture fill rate8.000no data
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no data

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

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 typeDDR2DDR4
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 28 May 2019
Chip lithography 55 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 12 Watt

UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) has an age advantage of 9 years, a 450% more advanced lithography process, and 16.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 120M and UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU). We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
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Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU)
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