GeForce GT 420M and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
500 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
96
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
10.00
Memory type
(G)DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A