NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +962%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1536

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GK208B

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.1

3.0

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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