NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720 +6%

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

192

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

19W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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