NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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 8 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +836%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

192

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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