NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and AMD Radeon HD 7690M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 725 MHz
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

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 25 December 2011
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7690M

Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
Around 93% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Around 65% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 454 vs 304
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 909 vs 614

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 96
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	454 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark	909 vs 614

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7690M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

454

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

909

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	454
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	909
Geekbench - OpenCL		1242

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon HD 7690M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF117	Thames
Launch date	1 July 2014	25 December 2011
Place in performance rating	506	507
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	480
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	716 million
Boost clock speed		725 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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory		0