Nvidia Announces Entry-Level GT 720 Graphics Card

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Nvidia's new GT 720 is an entry-level card with an entry-level price tag.

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[illuminatuz]

Oops.. I meant the 870..

 

[illuminatuz]

Come on!! Release the 870 & 770 already!!! Please do not hold a separate event for the two cards!! I'm soo impatient..

 

[Memnarchon]

"a 1 GB DDR3 variant with memory running at 1.8 GHz, and a 2 GB GDDR5 variant with memory running at 5.0 GHz."
Oo Its usually the opposite... (2GB for cheap DDR3 and 1GB for the expensive GDDR5)

 

[illuminatuz]

I meant the 870 & 880.... release them fast nvidia.. I'm soo impatient..

 

[InvalidError]

I wonder how well that will fare compared to the A10-78xx and Broadwell IGPs. Definitely not expecting much from the DDR3 variant - particularly now that you can get DDR3-2133 for almost the same price as DDR3-1600 to give the IGP a boost.

 

[icemunk]

Apparently around 700 gigaflops. The Tegra K1 has about 300 gigaflops for comparison.

 

[Joseph DeGarmo]

Enough with the 700 series already. We're long overdue for the 800 series. Quite frankly, it would not be surprising to see a 790 dual-GPU launch before the 880. *sigh*

 

[ozicom]

It's a shame to call this tiny thing GT Just call it G.

 

[takeshi7]

Is that a PCIe x8 connector?

 

[InvalidError]

Is that a PCIe x8 connector?

Looks like it.

Even high-end GPUs do not give PCIe x16 much of a workout so x8 for ultra-low-end GPUs should be perfectly fine and it shaves a few pennies off the manufacturing cost.

 

[littleleo]

"The card will come with two memory configurations: a 1 GB DDR3 variant with memory running at 1.8 GHz, and a 2 GB GDDR5 variant with memory running at 5.0 GHz."

That is different usually you see 2GB DDR3 and 1GB of DDR5 on these low-end cards.

 

[werewolfyman]

The GK107 die or the "GT 640" has 384 CUDA cores. The GT 720 has 192 or half. From this I can speculate that the GT 720 is literally just half of a GT 640, and should theoretically perform similarly to a GT 440 DDR3, while consuming much less power and generating much less heat. If Nvidia were to release a GT 710 it would likely have 96 CUDA cores and be 1/4 of the full GK107 die, or in other words, 1/4 of a GT 640/GT 730, which are the same card.

 

[elbert]

Why why why would Nvidia make this on their old tech. Should have been Maxwell so Nvidia could just rebrand it once the GTX 880 and GTX 870 release.

 

[chaosmassive]

Enough with the 700 series already. We're long overdue for the 800 series. Quite frankly, it would not be surprising to see a 790 dual-GPU launch before the 880. *sigh*

its look like to me that nvidia want to deplete lower GK chip (GK107, GK208)
before another lower GM chip phase in GTX 800 series...(hopefully no more rebranded GK Chip)

 

[Jeffrey H]

Well as much they want people to move to the FM2+ which supports PCIe 3.0, there are again people that are "on a Budget" just to get a computer system going, the fact is that I know there will be people giving me minus votes for this because I am not paying more than $1300 for a better system, the fact is, this economy is not doing things any better and such, I figure the reality has to hit us one way or another when it comes to Video Card choices from either staying "Economically Friendly" or wanting "Realistic 3D"...