ATI Radeon HD 3610 vs GeForce 720A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking961not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.30no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF117RV630
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 July 2014 (10 years ago)24 September 2009 (15 years 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 cores96120
Core clock speed775 MHz594 MHz
Boost clock speed938 MHzno data
Number of transistors585 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate15.014.752
Floating-point processing power0.1801 TFLOPS0.1426 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz396 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s12.67 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2014 24 September 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 35 Watt

GeForce 720A has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 6.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 720A and Radeon HD 3610. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 720A is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3610 is a desktop one.


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