GeForce 720M and GeForce GT 420 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 720M
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF117
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
48
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
2.800
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A