NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 141 Watt
  • Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 141 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 5.4x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
  • 5.2x better floating-point performance: 470.0 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Core clock speed 1836 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 47.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 32
Floating-point performance 470.0 gflops vs 89.6 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 108.412
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3309
PassMark - G2D Mark 83
PassMark - G3D Mark 494

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name G96C G92B
Launch date 20 January 2009 16 January 2009
Place in performance rating not rated 1328
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $229

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 1836 MHz
Floating-point performance 89.6 gflops 470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 32 128
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s 47.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 141 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI