NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

• Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• 3.5x more core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 230 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 140 nm
• 16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB or 1 GB vs 64 MB
• 4.5x more memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 200 MHz
• 78.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 631 vs 8
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 208 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

• 72.2x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 12.75 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	631 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	208 152

Compare specifications (specs)