AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 938 MHz
  • 29333.8x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
  • 42.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 304
  • 25.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15475 vs 614
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 vs 614

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

  • 14.4x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • Around 24% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1612 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
304
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15475
614
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 304
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 614

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 Fermi 2.0
Code name Vega 20 GF117
Launch date Dec 2019 1 July 2014
Place in performance rating 166 501
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 96
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 585 million
Floating-point performance 360.2 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 DDR3

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)