NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition sales 12 December 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.58 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.34 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 14 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G96C | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 December 2008 (15 years ago) | |
| Current price | $50 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 8.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 80 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1584 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.34 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition is Radeon HD 8310E.
Similar GPUs
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