GeForce 720M vs Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1043not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameKaveriGF117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)1 April 2013 (11 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 cores25696
Core clock speed514 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed626 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million585 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data33 Watt
Texture fill rateno data10.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 1 April 2013

R5 (Kaveri) has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and GeForce 720M. We've got no test results to judge.


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