NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

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 590 +2226%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

175W

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 30

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 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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