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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M is a graphics card released on February 11, 2009. It has 1 GB of DDR2 memory on a 128-bit bus, 16.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 500 MHz and a 23 W board power rating. It scores 151 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

N10P-GV1(G96b)

7/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields, 1 PassMark workload

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

1 GB

DDR2 · 128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

500 MHz base

Board power

23 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M scores 151 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 22.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,260), measured across 42 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 32.

PassMark G3D Mark

151

Rank #2,260
Faster than 22.1% of 2,658 GPUs
42 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 10 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 19.5% of 1,675 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M averages DirectX 9 10 fps, across 42 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 500 MHz

Memory clock 1250 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 23 W

First benchmarked 2009-07-21

Samples 42

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 500 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-07-21. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename N10P-GV1(G96b)

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M uses the N10P-GV1(G96b) graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units Not recorded

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 16

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 16 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 500 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M runs at a base clock of 500 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type DDR2

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 16.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M is equipped with 1 GB of DDR2 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 16.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M has a board power rating of 23 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 23 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Market

Launched February 11, 2009

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce GT

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M was released on February 11, 2009.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 151

PassMark G2D 32

Rank #2,260

Samples 42

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M.