GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon R7 260
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 |
| 76 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 260 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon R7 260 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 797 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon R7 260 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon R7 260 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Sep 2014 | vs | 17 Dec 2013 |
GeForce GT 720
3.19 GP/s
Radeon R7 260
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.75 GT/s
Radeon R7 260
48.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.80 GB/s
Radeon R7 260
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
306.05 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 260
1536.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better