NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120 OEM

0.118 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +3371%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 100

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.904 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

117.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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