NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +1527%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

192

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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