NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 57W)
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
57W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV570
-
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
