NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1740%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon R9 290X

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

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

192

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

438 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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