AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 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, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 938 MHz
11239.2x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 1536 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 125 Watt
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Geekbench - OpenCL	42811
PassMark - G2D Mark		304
PassMark - G3D Mark		614

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Navi 14	GF117
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	506	504
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	96
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		360.2 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3