GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 720
    100%
  • Radeon R9 270
    640%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 270

Around 540% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

The Radeon R9 270 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 270
GPU NameGK208 ()vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,800 million
Shaders192vs1280
Compute Units1vs20
Core clock797 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 270
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 270
TDP19 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date29 Sep 2014vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 720
    1220
  • Radeon R9 270
    7820

Points (higher is better)