NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 400 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 700 MHz
16.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 581 vs 35
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 214 vs 188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	581 vs 35
PassMark - G2D Mark	214 vs 188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

581

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

188

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	581	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	214	188
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF117	NV35
Launch date	1 July 2014	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	944	941
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR