GeForce GT 720 vs GeForce GTX 950
Summary
GeForce GT 720
100%
GeForce GTX 950
695%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 |
71 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 . |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Around 595% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950
The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
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GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
Transistors | unknown | vs | 2,940 million |
Shaders | 192 | vs | 768 |
Compute Units | 1 | vs | 6 |
Core clock | 797 MHz | vs | 1024 MHz |
ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 720 | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
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TDP | 19 watts | vs | 90 watts |
Release Date | 29 Sep 2014 | vs | 20 Aug 2015 |
GeForce GT 720
3.19 GP/s
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.75 GT/s
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.80 GB/s
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
306.05 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
1220
GeForce GTX 950
8490
Points (higher is better)