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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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	1305
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