NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +658%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 700

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

192

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

294W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Hemlock

-

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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