NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 120 OEM

0.118 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +4009%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 100

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

32

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.904 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

11.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

117.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

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 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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