ATI FirePro V8800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 FirePro V8800 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 208W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V8800
+2833%
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Jan 2009
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1600
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
208W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G96C
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
