GeForce GT 720A vs GT 820M

Place in performance ranking	937	930
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.02	0.01
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF117	GF117
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	27 November 2013 (10 years old)	1 July 2014 (9 years old)
Current price	$310	$639

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GT 820M has 100% better value for money than GT 720A.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	96
Core clock speed	775 MHz	775 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Texture fill rate	12.40	12.40
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	360.2 gflops

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Width	no data	MXM Module

Memory

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	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	16.02 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 820M 1.47

GT 720A 1.50
+2%

GT 720A outperforms GT 820M by 2% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 820M 570

GT 720A 581
+1.9%

GT 720A outperforms GT 820M by 2% in Passmark.