GeForce 9800 GT and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G92
GF117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
112
-
Floating-point performance
336.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
112
96
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
33 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
33.6 billion/sec
10.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A