GeForce GT 720M vs 820M

Released April, 2013

Nvidia GeForce GT 720M

625 MHz
2 GB DDR3

5.8 Out of 10

These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.

by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)

Released November, 2013

Nvidia GeForce 820M

775 MHz
1 GB DDR3

5.8 Out of 10

The good news is that you should have plenty of choices in the coming months, and not only are we seeing faster GPUs but many laptops are starting to come out with high quality 3K and 4K displays.

by Jarred-Walton (Mar, 2014)

	Gaming
	Real world tests using the latest 3D games
GeForce GT 720M 5.6 GeForce 820M 5.9
Dead Space 3 and Diablo III

	Benchmarks
	Synthetic tests to measure overall performance
GeForce GT 720M 5.7 GeForce 820M 5.9
Passmark, 3DMark 11 Graphics, 3DMark Vantage Graphics and 3DMark06

	Compute Performance
	General computing tests executed on the GPU
GeForce GT 720M N/A GeForce 820M N/A
Passmark Direct Compute and CLBenchmark Raytrace

	GPUBoss Score
	Gaming, Benchmarks and Compute Performance
GeForce GT 720M 5.7 GeForce 820M 5.7

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Nvidia GeForce 820M

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Nvidia GeForce GT 720M

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More memory

2,048 MB

1,024 MB

2x more memory

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Nvidia GeForce 820M

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Higher clock speed

775 MHz

625 MHz

Around 25% higher clock speed

Higher memory clock speed

900 MHz

800 MHz

Around 15% higher memory clock speed

Lower TDP

15W

33W

2.2x lower TDP

Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance

GeForce GT 720M

572

GeForce 820M

615

videocardbenchmark.net

3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance

GeForce GT 720M

7,896

GeForce 820M

8,284

notebookcheck.net

3DMark Vantage Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 10 GPU performance

GeForce GT 720M

3,931.5

GeForce 820M

4,173

notebookcheck.net

3DMark06 Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 9 GPU performance

GeForce GT 720M

1,213

GeForce 820M

1,237

notebookcheck.net

Dead Space 3 1920 x 1080 - Very High preset

GeForce GT 720M

18.1 fps

GeForce 820M

21.7 fps

notebookcheck.net

Not all games are fully supported/optimized, but there are over 50 officially supported games and most Steam games should work via Steam’s Big Picture mode.

GeForce 820M | by Jarred-Walton (Mar, 2014)