AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 938 MHz
13237.8x more texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 304
13.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8558 vs 614

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 Mar 2020 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark	8558 vs 614

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

5.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

304

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8558

614

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	304
PassMark - G3D Mark	8558	614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	20161
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4432

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Polaris 20	GF117
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date	9 Mar 2020	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	204	501
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate	44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s	15.01 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		360.2 gflops
Pipelines		96
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support