NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and ATI Radeon X850 XT 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 Radeon X850 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 520 MHz
Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 69 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1080 MHz
7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 614 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 69 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	614 vs 81

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT

Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 326 vs 304

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	326 vs 304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

326

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	ATI Radeon X850 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	326
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	81

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	ATI Radeon X850 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R400
Code name	GF117	R480
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	506	503
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	520 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	69 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	160 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
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3