NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 7 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
+430%
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
24
32
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
182W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT200
-
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
