NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +932%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

192

72

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.972 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.89 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

381.3 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.89 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK107

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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