GeForce GT 720A and GP106 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 720A

GP106

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GF117

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2014

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Core clock speed

775 MHz

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Floating-point performance

360.2 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

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Texture fill rate

12.40

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Memory type

DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

2002 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

2.1

6.1

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

6th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP8