NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1305%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

192

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

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

33.60 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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