GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 720
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250
    224%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

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 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 124% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

The Radeon R7 250 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R7 250
GPU NameGK208 ()vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders192vs384
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock797 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720Radeon R7 250
TDP19 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 Sep 2014vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 720
    1220
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)