NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
- Around 72% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 450 MHz
- Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
- Around 45% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 48 Watt
- 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
- Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1320 MHz
- Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 450 vs 258
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 1 April 2013 vs 9 March 2006 |
Core clock speed | 775 MHz vs 450 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 12.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 90 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt vs 48 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 256 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz vs 1320 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 450 vs 258 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
- Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 160 vs 119
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 160 vs 119 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M | NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 450 | 258 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 119 | 160 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 2612 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 6.901 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 146.913 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.587 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 10.121 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 22.755 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 1047 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2570 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 2035 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 1047 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 2570 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2035 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M | NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi 2.0 | Curie |
Code name | GF117 | G71 |
Launch date | 1 April 2013 | 9 March 2006 |
Place in performance rating | 1438 | 1050 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 938 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 775 MHz | 450 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 240.0 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | |
Texture fill rate | 12.4 GTexel / s | 10.8 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt | 48 Watt |
Transistor count | 585 million | 278 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI | ||
Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | Up to 2560x1600 | |
eDP 1.2 signal support | Up to 2560x1600 | |
HDCP content protection | ||
HDMI | ||
LVDS signal support | Up to 1920x1200 | |
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming | ||
VGA аnalog display support | Up to 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 2.0 | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12 API | 9.0c |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 256 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB / s | 42.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | 1320 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Standard memory configuration | DDR3 | |
Technologies |
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Blu-Ray 3D Support | ||
CUDA | ||
Direct Compute | ||
FXAA | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus |