GeForce GT 720M and HD Graphics 4200 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 720M

HD Graphics 4200

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Gen. 7.5 Haswell (2012−2013)

GPU code name

N14M-GE

Haswell GT2

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

April 2013

June 2013

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

PCIe 1.0 x16

Boost clock speed

938 MHz

850 MHz

Core clock speed

625 MHz

200 MHz

Floating-point performance

240.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

22 nm

Number of transistors

915 million

392 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

20

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

4 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.13

17.00

Memory type

DDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 - 2000 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

Standard memory configuration

DDR3

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

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

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.3

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.1.80

Blu-Ray 3D Support

+

-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-

Quick Sync

-

+

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming

+

-