NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2368 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+2799%
8.873 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 720
0.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
192
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.188 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.75 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
306.0 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
19W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GK208B
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
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
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
