Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GT 720

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    1368%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1268% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GT 720
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvsunknown
Shaders2048vs192
Compute Units32vs1
Core clock926 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs128vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470GeForce GT 720
TDP120 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)