AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

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$ 139.19

$ 54.90

$ 84.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

1785% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

2292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

1653% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

1900% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

33 W

460% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

1314% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

1490% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

1100% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

800% 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

192nd of 586

486th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 beats the GeForce GT 720M in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 580 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 580 is faster than the GeForce GT 720M.