AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce 720A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 938 MHz
12.1x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 2304 vs 96
16.2x better floating-point performance: 5,834 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Launch date	27 September 2016 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 96
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Name	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3208
PassMark - G2D Mark		304
PassMark - G3D Mark		614

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Ellesmere	GF117
Launch date	27 September 2016	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	501	502
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	938 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	96
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3