NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and NVIDIA GeForce 720A 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 938 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 15.01 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 96
6.7x better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
9.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6084 vs 614
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 304

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 January 2015 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed	1127 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops vs 360.2 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6084 vs 614
PassMark - G2D Mark	673 vs 304

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 120 Watt
285.7x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6084

614

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

673

304

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark	6084	614
PassMark - G2D Mark	673	304
Geekbench - OpenCL	18664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2284

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA GeForce 720A
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GM206	GF117
Launch date	22 January 2015	1 July 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	505	506
Price now	$229.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz
Core clock speed	1127 MHz	938 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops	360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	96
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec	15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
SLI options	2x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pins
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost