NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
4x more pipelines: 96 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 614 vs 104

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	96 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	614 vs 104

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 304

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

104

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	320
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	104

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF117	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	1 July 2014	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	506	508
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	24
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1