NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +736%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

192

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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