GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon R9 FURY X

GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720
Radeon R9 FURY X
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 24 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 FURY X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 720
    100%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    1554%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 1454% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 FURY X
GPU NameGK208 ()vsFiji (Fiji XT C8)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs8,900 million
Shaders192vs4096
Compute Units1vs64
Core clock797 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs8vs64
TMUs16vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 FURY X
Memory TypeDDR3vsHBM
Bus Width64 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720Radeon R9 FURY X
TDP19 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date29 Sep 2014vs24 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    67.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    268.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    8602.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 720
    1220
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    18960

Points (higher is better)