NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1181%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 720
0.306 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+1983%
3646
GeForce GT 720
175
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+1856%
1683
GeForce GT 720
86
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
192
104
TMUs
16
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.188 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.75 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
306.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
19W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK208B
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
398 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
5.2
CUDA
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
