NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 +401%

0.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2012

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

144

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.698 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

18.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

451.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

37.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

G96C

GF116-200-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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