NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 365W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
+1282%
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/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
19.46 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
365W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF110
-
GPU Variant
GF110-351-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
