NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 GTX 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+1195%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
4
480
Shading Units
32
60
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
50W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G96C
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
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
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
