Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GT 720
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 720 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1773%
5733
GeForce GT 720
306
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Sep 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
192
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.188 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.75 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
306.0 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
19W
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GK208B
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.5
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
