NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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 Go5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
4.7x more core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 140 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 32 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
71.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 574 vs 8
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 212 vs 190

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	574 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	212 vs 190

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

53.3x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 15.01 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

190

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	574	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	190
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF117	NV34 B1
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	966	963
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR