NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 100 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1450 MHz
4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 581 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	581 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 214

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	507 vs 214

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

581

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

507

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	581	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	214	507
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R500
Code name	GF117	R580
Launch date	1 July 2014	24 January 2006
Place in performance rating	944	293
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1450 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3