GeForce 720M and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
GeForce 720M
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF117
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
8.800
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A