AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 18.72 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
Around 66% better floating-point performance: 599.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 304
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 614

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 1 July 2014
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	359 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000 vs 614

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 730 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

304

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

614

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	304
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	614
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Oland	GF117
Launch date	5 May 2015	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	509	506
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	938 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3