GeForce GT 720M and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 720M vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GT 720M
475
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GT 720M
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N14M-GE
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
Boost clock speed
938 MHz
-
Core clock speed
625 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
160
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.13
5.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 2000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 2560x1600
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
Eyefinity
-
1
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
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 API
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-