NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +694%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

192

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 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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