AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
17.1x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
42.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 96
22.7x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 1 July 2014
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4096 vs 96
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

5.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 175 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579
PassMark - G2D Mark		304
PassMark - G3D Mark		614

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Fiji	GF117
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	1 July 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	497	499
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	4096	96
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	585 million
Core clock speed		938 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore