GeForce GT 720 384SP vs Radeon R7 250 OEM

GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 720 384SP
Radeon R7 250 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 384SP

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250 OEM .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 250 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R7 250 OEM
GPU NameGK208 ()vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock967 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R7 250 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R7 250 OEM
TDP19 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250 OEM
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better