NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 3 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +777%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

192

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

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

29.86 GPixel/s

15.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

381.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

15.89 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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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