NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G96C G96C
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 314 million 314 million
Die size 121 mm² 121 mm²
GPU variant G96-875-C1

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 20th, 2009 Apr 9th, 2009
Generation GeForce 100 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 200
Launch price 199 USD
Reviews 26 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 550 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 1400 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 8
SM count 4 4
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.400 GPixel/s 3.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.800 GTexel/s 7.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 89.60 GFLOPS 72.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 198 mm 7.8 inches
TDP 50 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Board number P815 P788
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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