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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

AMD FirePro M4000

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 5490

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 5490

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: 1604 vs 581
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 412 vs 214

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	1604 vs 581
PassMark - G2D Mark	412 vs 214

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

581

1604

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

412

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11927

5490

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	AMD FirePro M4000
PassMark - G3D Mark	581	1604
PassMark - G2D Mark	214	412
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927	5490
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	944	945
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