AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +975%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

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

Tonga

GPU Name

GK208B

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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