NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

193
Place in performance rating
809
29.35
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Maxwell
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
GM204
Code name
GF117
Laptop
Type
Desktop
7 October 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
1 July 2014 (7 years ago)
$583
Price now
$639
9.31
Value for money
0.14
GM204
GPU code name
GF117
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
96
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
775 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
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5,200 million
Transistor count
585 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
51.84
Texture fill rate
12.40
3,462 gflops
Floating-point performance
360.2 gflops
1536
CUDA cores
no data
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1127 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
5,200 million
Number of transistors
585 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
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large
Laptop size
no data
+
SLI options
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PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
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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 GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
DDR3
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
2500 MHz
Memory clock speed
2002 MHz
160 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
G-SYNC support
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+
HDMI
no data
+
VGA аnalog display support
no data
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A is the additional functionality.

2.0
GPU Boost
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CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
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Optimus
no data
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Ansel
no data
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GameStream
no data
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GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
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GameWorks
no data
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BatteryBoost
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
+
DSR
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
6.4
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 GTX 980M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 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 GTX 980M or NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
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 GTX 980M

31.9% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($583 vs $639)

More pipelines (1536 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (160 GB/s vs 16.02 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

There is no accountable advantage

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M or NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
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