GeForce GT 120 OEM vs Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking333not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.53no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameWimbledon XTG96C
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (12 years ago)10 March 2009 (15 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 cores256032
Core clock speed850 MHz738 MHz
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data11.81
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1175 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz504 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16.13 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 10 March 2009
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 50 Watt

HD 7970M Crossfire has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

GT 120 OEM, on the other hand, has 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and GeForce GT 120 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is a notebook card while GeForce GT 120 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM
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