AMD Radeon R5 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

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$ 45.99

$ 8.91 slightly less expensive

$ 54.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

102 points

121 points

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4869 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5213 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

719 MHz

259% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

120% significantly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.03 Gigapixels/s

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3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

12.13 Gigatexels/s

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12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

256

33% slightly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

503rd of 586

486th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 September

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R5 vs GeForce GT 720M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 720M GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon R5 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720M at 33 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 720M is faster than the Radeon R5.