NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 3.2x more texture fill rate: 12.75 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB or 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 631 vs 143
  • 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 208 vs 53
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 September 2014 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed 797 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 12.75 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB or 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 631 vs 143
PassMark - G2D Mark 208 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
631
143
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
208
53
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 631 143
PassMark - G2D Mark 208 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 2224
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.418
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 142.734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 8.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 17.317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 895
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 280
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 519
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 895
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 280
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 519
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Curie
Code name GK208B NV43 A2
Launch date 29 September 2014 12 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $49 $64.95
Place in performance rating 1590 1588
Price now $54.99 $64.95
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 15.44 2.05

Technical info

Core clock speed 797 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 98 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 12.75 GTexel / s 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Height 2.713" (6.9 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB or 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5) 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 / GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA