NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD FirePro W7000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and AMD FirePro W7000 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 - 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 W7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
10.6x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 350 Watt

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 13 June 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 350 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7000

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 938 MHz
5.1x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
6.8x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 541 vs 304
6.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4253 vs 614

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	541 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark	4253 vs 614

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

541

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

4253

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD FirePro W7000
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	541
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	4253
Geekbench - OpenCL		17788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		52.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1148.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		268.49
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD FirePro W7000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF117	Pitcairn
Launch date	1 July 2014	13 June 2012
Place in performance rating	506	508
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	950 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	1280
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length
Length		242 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5