GeForce GT 720 OEM vs Radeon R5 430 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking809not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameOlandGK107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)29 October 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384192
Core clock speed730 MHz993 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate18.7215.89
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS0.3813 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz891 MHz
Memory bandwidth36.8 GB/s28.51 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 29 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB

R5 430 OEM has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GT 720 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 430 OEM and GeForce GT 720 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM
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