NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +427%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

0.118 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GT 120 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

4

240

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.904 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.81 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

117.5 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G96C

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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