NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +558%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 700

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

192

Shading Units

1120

16

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

255 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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