NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 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 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 12.75 GTexel / s vs 6.5 billion / sec
• 4x more pipelines: 192 vs 48
• Around 97% better floating-point performance: 306.0 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 29 Watt
• Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 611 vs 309
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 199 vs 135
• Around 79% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2279 vs 1270
• Around 70% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 4.418 vs 2.597
• Around 87% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 142.734 vs 76.214
• Around 65% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.395 vs 0.239
• Around 39% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 8.158 vs 5.862
• 3.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 17.317 vs 4.574
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 895 vs 545
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 895 vs 545

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

• 2x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 797 MHz
• 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 903 vs 280
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1455 vs 519
• 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 903 vs 280
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1455 vs 519

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	611 309
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	199 135
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	2279 1270
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.418 2.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	142.734 76.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.395 0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.158 5.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	17.317 4.574
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	895 545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	280 903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	519 1455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	895 545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	280 903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	519 1455

Compare specifications (specs)