Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics vs GeForce GT 720A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking975not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.20no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF117Spectre Lite
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 July 2014 (10 years ago)17 February 2014 (10 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 cores96384
Core clock speed775 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors585 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate12.4013.30
Floating-point processing power0.2976 TFLOPS0.4255 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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 x16IGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1001 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16.02 GB/sno data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2014 17 February 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 90 Watt

GT 720A has an age advantage of 4 months, and 172.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 720A and Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
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