NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
FirePro 2270
+6%
0.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 100
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
80
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
15W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Cedar
-
GPU Variant
Cedar WS
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
