Nvidia Announces Entry-Level GT 720 Graphics Card

Nvidia announced the GT 720, an entry-level graphics card based on the GK208 GPU. The Kepler-based card is built on the 28 nm fabrication process and runs at a frequency of 797 MHz. 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.

We expect most of the normal AIBs to be building their own models of this card, including Asus, EVGA, Palit, MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte, and more. Pictured below is the reference card, which some of them will be selling. There will also be variants of the card cooled with a small fan.

For gaming, you won't get a lot of power from these cards--you're probably better off spending your money on a more powerful secondhand card. That said, given the large number of passively cooled cards, we might be seeing these in some media center configurations and office PCs that need a little more oomph than integrated graphics can provide. Pricing is expected to sit around $50 for most models.

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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

1481619 said:

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

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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"...

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