NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD FirePro M5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and AMD FirePro M5100 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD FirePro M5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 725 MHz

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 16 October 2013
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 725 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M5100

2.1x more texture fill rate: 31 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
2.8x better floating-point performance: 992.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
2.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 800 vs 253
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2103 vs 577

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 96
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	800 vs 253
PassMark - G3D Mark	2103 vs 577

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M5100

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

253

800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

577

2103

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD FirePro M5100
PassMark - G2D Mark	253	800
PassMark - G3D Mark	577	2103
Geekbench - OpenCL		6837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		537.558
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		40.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		108.052
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2926
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2926
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD FirePro M5100
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF117	Venus
Launch date	1 July 2014	16 October 2013
Place in performance rating	642	643
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	640
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1,500 million
Boost clock speed		775 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AppAcceleration