NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 49W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 720
+13%
0.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
9.600GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.188 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.75 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
306.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
19W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GK208B
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.1
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
