Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce 720A

Place in the ranking	953	198
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.34	53.94
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GF117	AD107
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	1 July 2014 (10 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	2048
Core clock speed	775 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	938 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.01	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.1801 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	32
TMUs	16	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.1	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.59	27.26
Recency	1 July 2014	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	35 Watt

GeForce 720A has 6.1% lower power consumption.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has a 1614.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 720A in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 720A is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.