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).

 

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

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 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 988 vs 581
• Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 309 vs 214
• Around 6% better performance in 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	581 988
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	214 309
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	11927 12641

Compare specifications (specs)