GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRV730GT200B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 December 2011 (12 years ago)16 June 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

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 cores320240
Core clock speed600 MHz576 MHz
Number of transistors514 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt289 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2046.08
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS0.5962 TFLOPS
ROPs828
TMUs3280

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length193 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB896 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit448 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s112.9 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 December 2011 16 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 896 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 289 Watt

ATI HD 4720 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 14.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 425.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4720 and GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB. We've got no test results to judge.


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