NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X550 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
Radeon R300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.600 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
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-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV410
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.12 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
156 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
