NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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
Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
+1110%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
14
32
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
215W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF100
-
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
