GeForce 720M vs Radeon R5 M430

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking903not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameMarsGF117
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2016 (8 years ago)1 April 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores32096
Core clock speed955 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors690 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown33 Watt
Texture fill rate17.1010.00
Floating-point performance659.2 gflops240.0 gflops
Floating-point performance0.5472 gflops0.24 gflops

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno dataMXM Module

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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1746 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2016 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB

R5 M430 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M430 and GeForce 720M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M430 is a notebook card while GeForce 720M is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 M430
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