Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 720M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 720M
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 720M
475
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 720M
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hawaii
N14M-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
April 2013
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
938 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
96
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
12.13
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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 (12_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+