NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +1917%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

192

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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