NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and AMD Radeon R9 270 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon R9 270

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 13 November 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

4.9x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
6.6x better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 304
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 614

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	567 vs 304
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306 vs 614

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

567

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

4306

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon R9 270
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	567
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	4306
Geekbench - OpenCL		74175
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1603

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	AMD Radeon R9 270
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF117	Curacao
Launch date	1 July 2014	13 November 2013
Place in performance rating	509	510
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	1280
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	2,800 million
Boost clock speed		925 MHz
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)