Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition |
| 58 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5770 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Juniper (Juniper XT) | vs | G96C () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 166 mm² | vs | 121 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 314 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 32 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 108 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Oct 2009 | vs | 20 Jan 2009 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better