NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 150 Watt
3.2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 640 MB

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 19 November 2007
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 640 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 14 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Around 17% higher pipelines: 112 vs 96
Around 12% better floating-point performance: 268.8 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Texture fill rate	14 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	112 vs 96
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
PassMark - G3D Mark	450
PassMark - G2D Mark	119
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 8800 GTS Core 112
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GF117	G80
Launch date	1 April 2013	19 November 2007
Place in performance rating	1438	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	938 MHz
Core clock speed	775 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96	112
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	14 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	681 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
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	640 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 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