AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded 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. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1584 vs 581
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 413 vs 214

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 February 2018 vs 1 July 2014
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1584 vs 581
PassMark - G2D Mark	413 vs 214

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

3.1x more core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 35% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11927 vs 8805

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927 vs 8805

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1584

581

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

413

214

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8805

11927

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1584	581
PassMark - G2D Mark	413	214
Geekbench - OpenCL	8805	11927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	25.891
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	365.4
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	132.07
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6729
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6729
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	705

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Owl	GF117
Launch date	13 February 2018	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	950	944
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		360.2 gflops
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		15.01 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz
Memory type		DDR3