NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Lower TDP (19W vs 151W)

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850 +582%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 700

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

192

Shading Units

1440

16

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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