AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and NVIDIA GeForce GT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
8x more pipelines: 768 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.6x more memory clock speed: 5100 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 7% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12706 vs 11927

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 1 July 2014
Pipelines	768 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	12706 vs 11927

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 907 MHz
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt

Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 907 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

12706

11927

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Geekbench - OpenCL	12706	11927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	668.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
PassMark - G3D Mark		574
PassMark - G2D Mark		212

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Polaris 21	GF117
Launch date	16 July 2018	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	964	966
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	907 MHz	938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		360.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		15.01 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	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
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s