NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

8768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +9913%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

192

Shading Units

8960

16

TMUs

280

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

350W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

628 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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