GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 630

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2009
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 630

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 630

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 120 Mac EditionGeForce GT 630
GPU NameG96C ()vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs585 million
Shaders32vs96
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 120 Mac EditionGeForce GT 630
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 120 Mac EditionGeForce GT 630
TDP50 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date20 Jan 2009vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    8.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better