GeForce 720M vs GTX 480M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	681	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.90	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF100	GF117
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	25 May 2010 (14 years ago)	1 April 2013 (11 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 cores	352	96
Core clock speed	425 MHz	625 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	33 Watt
Texture fill rate	18.70	10.00
Floating-point processing power	0.5984 TFLOPS	0.24 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	44	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	large	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
SLI options	+	-

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	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	12.8 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	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 API	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	2.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 May 2010	1 April 2013
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	33 Watt

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