GeForce 710A vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce 710A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Apr 2013
GeForce 710A
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 710A
    100%
  • GeForce GT 720
    111%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 710A

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 11% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 720

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 720

The GeForce GT 720 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 710AGeForce GT 720
GPU NameGF117 (N14M-GE)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock938 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 710AGeForce GT 720
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 710AGeForce GT 720
TDP33 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2013vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 710A
    3.75 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 710A
    15.01 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 710A
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 710A
    360.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 710A
    1090
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)