NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 720A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 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 Quadro FX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 360 MHz
5.2x more texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 800 MHz
9.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 614 vs 64

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	614 vs 64

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 325 vs 304

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	325 vs 304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

325

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

614

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	325
PassMark - G3D Mark	614	64

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 720A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF117	NV43 A2
Launch date	1 July 2014	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	502	499
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	360 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	146 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		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3