NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI 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 1 years and 1 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
+309%
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
8
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.268 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.268 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G98
-
GPU Variant
G98-400-U2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
86 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
