NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs ATI FireGL V7300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and ATI FireGL V7300 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

ATI FireGL V7300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 594 MHz
Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 9.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 97 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1296 MHz
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 614 vs 128

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 9.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 97 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	614 vs 128

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7300

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 322 vs 304

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	322 vs 304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7300

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

322

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	ATI FireGL V7300
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	322
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	128

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	ATI FireGL V7300
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R500
Code name	GF117	R520
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	502	500
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	9.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	97 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	321 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	41.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1296 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3