NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 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 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 65W)

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +211%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

192

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

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

14.88 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

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

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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