NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and AMD Radeon HD 6990 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, 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon HD 6990

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 830 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
11.4x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 375 Watt

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 8 March 2011
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 830 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 375 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

18.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.01 GTexel / s
32x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 96
14.2x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 253
5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 577

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	532 vs 253
PassMark - G3D Mark	3014 vs 577

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

253

532

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

577

3014

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon HD 6990
PassMark - G2D Mark	253	532
PassMark - G3D Mark	577	3014
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		17.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		840.452
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		53.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		265.302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon HD 6990
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	GF117	Antilles
Launch date	1 July 2014	8 March 2011
Place in performance rating	642	644
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$159.99
Value for money (0-100)		27.81
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	830 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	2x 1536
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	375 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	2,640 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		295 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5