NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 244W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 580
+1656%
1.581 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Nov 2010
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
244W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF110
-
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
520 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
