NVIDIA GeForce 705A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 705A 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 705A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 705A

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 775 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48
2.4x better floating-point performance: 360.2 gflops vs 148.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 48
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops vs 148.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 705A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 705A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark		574
PassMark - G2D Mark		212
Geekbench - OpenCL		11927

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 705A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF119	GF117
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	949
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	938 MHz
Floating-point performance	148.8 gflops	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	48	96
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3