NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 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
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
+130%
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G96C
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
