NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 236W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
208 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
+591%
0.622 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
1107 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
30
32
Shading Units
240
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
236W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT200
-
GPU Variant
G200-300-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
