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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
-
-