Radeon HD 7550M and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7550M
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Thames-LP / Pro
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
550 MHz
-
Core clock speed
450 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
96
Power consumption (TDP)
14 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.00
10.00
Memory type
GDDR5 / DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 / 1800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A