GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GT 720
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvsunknown
Shaders768vs192
Compute Units6vs1
Core clock1290 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs48vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GT 720
TDP75 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better