NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+4255%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1664
16
TMUs
104
8
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
148W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
