NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+2374%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 100
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
274W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
