In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition are significantly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7720.

The GTX 650 Ti has a 88 MHz higher core clock speed and 24 more Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon HD 7720. This results in the GTX 650 Ti providing 25.8 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 650 Ti has a 88 MHz higher core clock speed than the Radeon HD 7720, but the Radeon HD 7720 has 16 more Render Output Units than the GTX 650 Ti. As a result, the Radeon HD 7720 exhibits a 12.1 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GTX 650 Ti. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon HD 7720 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 650 Ti, and so the Radeon HD 7720 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon HD 7720 and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The Radeon HD 7720 has 48 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 650 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon HD 7720 is noticeably better than the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon HD 7720 has 800 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition has 768. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 7720 is 336 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 650 Ti is 713. The GTX 650 Ti having 377 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Radeon HD 7720 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The GTX 650 Ti transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the Radeon HD 7720. This means that the GTX 650 Ti is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Radeon HD 7720.

The Radeon HD 7720 requires 150 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the Radeon HD 7720.