Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GT 720
Radeon HD 5870
2282
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
Cypress
GK208B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
192
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
68.00
12.75
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+