NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT 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
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
+131%
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
4
64
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G96C
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
