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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 229 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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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 |