GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GT 720 384SP

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 720 384SP
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 384SP

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GT 720 384SP
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvsunknown
Shaders480vs384
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock732 MHzvs967 MHz
ROPs40vs8
TMUs60vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width320 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GT 720 384SP
TDP219 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better