NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7970M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

873
Place in performance rating
366
Fermi
Architecture
GCN
GK208
Code name
Wimbledon
Laptop
Type
Laptop
1 April 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
$499
Price now
$338
0.03
Value for money
2.25
N14M-GE
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

192
Pipelines
1280
625 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
758 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
915 million
Transistor count
2,800 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
12.13
Texture fill rate
68.00
240.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
938 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
915 million
Number of transistors
2,800 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M.

PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
no data
Supplementary power connectors
None
medium sized
Laptop size
large
PCI Express 2.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
12.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
DDR3
Standard memory configuration
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
HDMI
no data
Up to 2048x1536
VGA аnalog display support
no data
Up to 2560x1600
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
no data
Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support
no data
Up to 1920x1200
LVDS signal support
no data
+
HDCP content protection
no data
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
no data
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M is the additional functionality.

+
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
+
FXAA
no data
+
Verde Drivers
no data
+
Blu-Ray 3D Support
no data
+
Direct Compute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M or AMD Radeon HD 7970M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 100 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7970M

14.7% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($338 vs $499)

More pipelines (1280 vs 192)

More memory bandwidth (153.6 GB/s vs 12.8 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M or AMD Radeon HD 7970M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 7970M .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M versus AMD Radeon HD 7970M performance benchmarks comparison

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