GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking720not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.31no data
Power efficiency1.64no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV770G96C
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores80032
Core clock speed750 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors956 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate30.008.800
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPS0.0896 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4016

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length250 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 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 DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 20 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt

ATI HD 4870 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GT 120 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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