NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +544%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

192

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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