GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2009
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsG96C ()
Fab Process16 nmvs55 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs314 million
Shaders1280vs32
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1506 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
TDP120 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs20 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better