NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720 +53%

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

192

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

19W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

67 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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