NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 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
Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)
AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
FirePro S10000 Passive
+3683%
3.405 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 100
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
825 MHz
-
Boost Clock
950 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
