GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+907%
907
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
90
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
4
336
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G96C
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
