NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
+157%
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.900 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.800 GTexel/s
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-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.20 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
31W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT216
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
