NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +894%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

192

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.972 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

15.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

381.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

15.89 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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