Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GT 720
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
GK208B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
192
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
55.04
12.75
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-