NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 10 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
+326%
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
197W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G92
-
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
324 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
