NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 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 Go5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 938 MHz vs 275 MHz
13.6x more texture fill rate: 15.01 GTexel / s vs 1.1 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
4x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 500 MHz
31.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 574 vs 18
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 212 vs 186

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 July 2014 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	938 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	574 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	212 vs 186

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

186

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	574	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	186
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF117	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 July 2014	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	949	946
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	938 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	15.01 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	80 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	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR