NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD FirePro M4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and AMD FirePro M4000 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11927 vs 5532
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 July 2014 vs 27 June 2012
Core clock speed 938 MHz vs 675 MHz
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 11927 vs 5532

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M4000

  • Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
  • 5.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 96
  • Around 92% better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1593 vs 574
  • Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 410 vs 212
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 21.6 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 96
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1593 vs 574
PassMark - G2D Mark 410 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M4000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
574
1593
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
212
410
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
11927
5532
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A AMD FirePro M4000
PassMark - G3D Mark 574 1593
PassMark - G2D Mark 212 410
Geekbench - OpenCL 11927 5532
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 15.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 424.37
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.072
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 79.304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2189
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3539
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2189
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3539
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A AMD FirePro M4000

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GF117 Chelsea
Launch date 1 July 2014 27 June 2012
Place in performance rating 949 950
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 938 MHz 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 360.2 gflops 691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 96 512
Texture fill rate 15.01 GTexel / s 21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Bus support n / a
Form factor MXM-A
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s 72 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0