AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +1618%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GK208B

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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