NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS 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
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Nov 2005
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
NV41
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
