NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

5696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +6537%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

192

Shading Units

5888

16

TMUs

184

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

220W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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