GeForce GT 720 384SP vs Radeon R9 FURY X

GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 720 384SP
Radeon R9 FURY X
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 24 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 FURY X
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 384SP

256 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 FURY X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 FURY X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 FURY X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 FURY X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R9 FURY X
GPU NameGK208 ()vsFiji (Fiji XT C8)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs8,900 million
Shaders384vs4096
Compute Units2vs64
Core clock967 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs8vs64
TMUs16vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R9 FURY X
Memory TypeDDR3vsHBM
Bus Width64 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720 384SPRadeon R9 FURY X
TDP19 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs24 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    67.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    268.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    8602.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better