GeForce 720A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5830

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 720A and Mobility Radeon HD 5830. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce 720A and Mobility Radeon HD 5830. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Mobility Radeon HD 5830 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 720A Mobility Radeon HD 5830
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 24 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce 720A has 37% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce 720A and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • GeForce 720A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 720A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 720A is 275 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • GeForce 720A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5830 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 720A is 1200 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 4−5
ultra / 1080p 2−3
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 16−18
medium / 1080p 0−1 6−7
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1600% more, than GeForce 720A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 720A Mobility Radeon HD 5830
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GF117 Broadway
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 1 July 2014 7 January 2010
Pipelines 96 800
Core clock speed 775 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 938 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 15.01 20.00
Floating-point performance 360.2 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 16 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size large
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