NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (19W vs 47W)

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM +100%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

192

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

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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