NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 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 4 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+3%
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
169 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
