GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs FirePro V3900

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking946not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.28no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTurksG96C
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 February 2012 (12 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 years ago)

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 cores48032
Core clock speed650 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors716 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)199 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate15.608.800
Floating-point processing power0.624 TFLOPS0.0896 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2416

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Form factorhalf height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth28 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-
HD сomponent video output+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2012 20 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 199 Watt 50 Watt

FirePro V3900 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

GT 120 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 298% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3900 and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V3900 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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