NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +928%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

192

104

TMUs

16

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.972 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.89 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

381.3 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.89 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK107

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

118 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

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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