GeForce GT 525M and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 525M
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N12P-GE
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
230.4 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
9.6 billion/sec
10.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 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
Optimus
+
-