AMD Radeon R7 M370 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M370 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M370

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher texture fill rate: 23.04 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 737.3 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1418 vs 574
  • 3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 676 vs 212
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 July 2014
Texture fill rate 23.04 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 737.3 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1418 vs 574
PassMark - G2D Mark 676 vs 212

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 69% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11927 vs 7038
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 938 MHz vs 900 MHz
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 11927 vs 7038

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M370
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1418
574
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
676
212
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
7038
11927
Name AMD Radeon R7 M370 NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark 1418 574
PassMark - G2D Mark 676 212
Geekbench - OpenCL 7038 11927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 17.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 476.075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.653
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.082
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 70.174
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1484
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2449
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1484
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2449

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 M370 NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Litho GF117
Design AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 July 2014
Place in performance rating 948 949
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 960 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 938 MHz
Floating-point performance 737.3 gflops 360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 96
Texture fill rate 23.04 GTexel / s 15.01 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,040 million 585 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed
OpenGL 4.4 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 73.6 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PCIe 3.0
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
Zero Core
ZeroCore