NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 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 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 700 MHz
• 4.6x more texture fill rate: 12.75 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
• 4x more pipelines: 192 vs 48
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 306.0 gflops vs 134.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 50 Watt
• Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 631 vs 426
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 208 vs 189
• Around 92% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2224 vs 1161
• Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 4.418 vs 3.121
• Around 30% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 142.734 vs 109.787
• Around 63% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 8.158 vs 5.005
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 17.317 vs 8.55
• Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 895 vs 660
• Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 895 vs 660

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

• Around 2% higher maximum memory size: 1048 MB vs 1 GB or 1 GB
• 2x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 900 MHz
• 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1158 vs 280
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1626 vs 519
• 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1158 vs 280
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1626 vs 519

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	631 426
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	208 189
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	2224 1161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.418 3.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	142.734 109.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.158 5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	17.317 8.55
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	895 660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	280 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	519 1626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	895 660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	280 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	519 1626

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