NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

  • 5.4x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
  • Around 80% better floating-point performance: 144 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 48 vs 32
Floating-point performance 144 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name G96C G94B
Launch date 12 December 2008 12 December 2008
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 80 gflops 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 32 48
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 505 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.34 GB / s 38.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1584 MHz 1584 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3