GeForce 720M vs Radeon Pro 450

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking551not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.83no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBaffinGF117
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date30 October 2016 (8 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 cores64096
Core clock speed800 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt33 Watt
Texture fill rate32.0010.00
Floating-point processing power1.024 TFLOPS0.24 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4016

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth81.28 GB/s12.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 October 2016 1 April 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 33 Watt

Pro 450 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 720M, on the other hand, has 6.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro 450 and GeForce 720M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro 450 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce 720M is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro 450
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