NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 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 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
+130%
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
40W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT218
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
