GeForce GT 720M and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 720M vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GT 720M
475
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GT 720M
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N14M-GE
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
April 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
938 MHz
-
Core clock speed
625 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.13
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Standard memory configuration
DDR3
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 2560x1600
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 2560x1600
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-