Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2009
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 5770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsG96C ()
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs314 million
Shaders800vs32
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock850 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
TDP108 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs20 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better