ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
88 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (50W vs 73W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
+60%
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
120
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G96C
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
