GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 720 384SP
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 384SP |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-310-A1) | vs | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1152 MHz | vs | 967 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR4 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
|---|
| TDP | 20 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2018 | vs | 27 Mar 2014 |
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22.06 GP/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
7.74 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
33.10 GT/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
15.47 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
16.80 GB/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 720 384SP
742.70 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better