GeForce GT 720 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GT 720
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
GK208B
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
August 2001
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
797 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
306.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
23 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
12.75
2.200
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB or 1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
3 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-