GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660
    557%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Around 457% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GT 720

121 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvsunknown
Shaders960vs192
Compute Units5vs1
Core clock980 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720
TDP140 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)