NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD FirePro V4900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and AMD FirePro V4900 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 V4900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 800 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 1 November 2011
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V4900

Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
2.1x better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 990 vs 574
Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 312 vs 212
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12641 vs 11927

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 96
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	990 vs 574
PassMark - G2D Mark	312 vs 212
Geekbench - OpenCL	12641 vs 11927

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro V4900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

990

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

312

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11927

12641

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	AMD FirePro V4900
PassMark - G3D Mark	574	990
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	312
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927	12641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		392.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		17.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		72.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7745

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	AMD FirePro V4900
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF117	Turks
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 November 2011
Place in performance rating	949	952
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops	768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	480
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		163 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5