NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 +292%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

192

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

RV770

-

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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