
GeForce GT 720 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GT 720
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK208B
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
N/A
Core clock speed
797 MHz
-
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
306.0 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
160
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
12.75
5.000
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB or 1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
3 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-