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
GPU 1
GPU 2
450
258
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
160
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
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

Essentials

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

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

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

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

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

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

Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus