NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 574 vs 435

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	574 vs 435

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP

Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 263 vs 212

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	263 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

435

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

263

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	574	435
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	263
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1962
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1962
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2332
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2332

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	AMD Radeon HD 8410G IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	GF117	Scrapper
Launch date	1 July 2014	23 May 2013
Place in performance rating	949	950
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1,303 million
Boost clock speed		720 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3