GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GT 720
Summary
GeForce GTX 480
467%
GeForce GT 720
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480 |
| Around 367% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 |
| 231 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480
The GeForce GTX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-375-A3) | vs | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 192 |
| Compute Units | 15 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 701 MHz | vs | 797 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 60 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 924 MHz
3696 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1536 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 480 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | vs | 29 Sep 2014 |
GeForce GTX 480
21.00 GP/s
GeForce GT 720
3.19 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
42.10 GT/s
GeForce GT 720
12.75 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
177.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 720
12.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
1345.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 720
306.05 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 480
5700
GeForce GT 720
1220
Points (higher is better)