NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +5434%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

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4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96C

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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