GeForce GT 720 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GT 720
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GK208B
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
November 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
797 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
306.0 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
320
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
12.75
12.43
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB or 1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
3 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-