Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs GeForce 720A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking958not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.36no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF117Tahiti
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 July 2014 (10 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 years ago)

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 cores96768
Core clock speed775 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed938 MHzno data
Number of transistors585 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate15.0138.40
Floating-point processing power0.1801 TFLOPS1.229 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1648

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB3 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s240.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2014 31 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 85 Watt

GeForce 720A has an age advantage of 2 years, and 157.6% lower power consumption.

HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 720A and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 720A is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 is a desktop one.


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