NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

2180% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

3001% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1514 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

1875% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2372 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

2371% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2361 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

2032% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2331 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

1643% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3346 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

1023% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

50 W

120% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

2265% significantly higher pixel rate

3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

1378% significantly higher texture rate

15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

1233% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

900% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

467th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GT 720 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 720 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 720 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q over the GeForce GT 720.

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