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Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GT 720

Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce GT 720
628

Radeon R9 290X

GeForce GT 720


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)

GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GK208B

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
October 2013
September 2014

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None

Boost clock speed
947 MHz
-

Core clock speed
-
797 MHz

CUDA cores
-
192

Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
306.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
915 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
192

Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
19 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C

Texture fill rate
176.0
12.75

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB or 1 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA

Multi monitor support
-
3 displays

Eyefinity
+
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
6.3
5.1

Vulkan
+
1.1.126

3D Blu-Ray
-
+

3D Gaming
-
+

3D Vision
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-