AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +736%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK208B

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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