HD Graphics 2000 and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2000
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850/1100 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
10.2 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
96
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.100
10.00
Memory type
System Shared
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
2 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A