GeForce GTX 280M and GeForce 720A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280M vs GeForce 720A
GeForce GTX 280M
592
GeForce 720A
632
GeForce GTX 280M
GeForce 720A
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
July 2014
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-IV
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
938 MHz
Core clock speed
585 MHz
775 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
374.5 gflops
360.2 gflops
Gigaflops
562
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
38 billion/sec
15.01
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-