GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV630G96C
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 February 2008 (16 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12032
Core clock speed700 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors390 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate5.6008.800
Floating-point processing power0.168 TFLOPS0.0896 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s25.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 February 2008 20 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 50 Watt

ATI HD 2600 XT Mac Edition has 11.1% lower power consumption.

GT 120 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
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