GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a sales 6 May 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 40 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | C78 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 May 2008 (17 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 40 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.000 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0384 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCI | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a is Radeon HD 3200.
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