NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
3552 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+14055%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
28
32
Shading Units
3584
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
170W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA106
-
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
12 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
