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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 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 120W)
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470 +5388%
4.94 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2009
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 100
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz

Memory

512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W
TDP
120W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
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