AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+452%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G96C
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
