AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 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

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +1245%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G96C

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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