GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1900 XT

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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
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR580G96C
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 January 2006 (18 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 coresno data32
Core clock speed625 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors384 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.008.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0896 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1616

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
Length242 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed725 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth46.4 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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)3.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 January 2006 20 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 50 Watt

GT 120 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 63.6% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1900 XT and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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