GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GT 720 384SP

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
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 660

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 384SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720 384SP
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvsunknown
Shaders960vs384
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock980 MHzvs967 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GT 720 384SP
TDP140 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better