HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
G96C
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
January 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
32
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
8.800
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A