GeForce GT 720M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GT 720M is 2013-era filler silicon — a 192-core Kepler chip that existed so entry laptops could list dedicated graphics on the spec sheet. The catalog has benchmarked it in 53 games at 1080p across 4 matched models.

Where the GT 720M sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 2.2 — 308th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, the bottom decile of the table. The neighbors are the forgotten tier: the Radeon HD 6770M (2.3) and GT 525M (2.3) above, its own sibling the GT 740M (2.2) level, and the Radeon R5 M230 (2.2) and Quadro 2000M (2.1) below. Ranking alongside 2011-vintage mobile chips is the terminal position: thirteen years took this silicon from "modest" to "measured for the record."

What the chip brings

The GF117 die on 28 nm Kepler: 192 shader cores, 2 GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus with 12 GB/s of bandwidth, a 33 W envelope and roughly 0.29 TFLOPS. Every one of those numbers was entry-level in 2013; the bandwidth figure in particular is one-fifth of what a modern integrated GPU enjoys from system memory. CUDA support is the only feature that ever mattered post-launch. Public synthetics: PassMark 437, Fire Strike 822.

FPS in games at 1080p

The capped quartet still heads the table — CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140 at the high preset — a testament to how little those legacy engines asked. Team Fortress 2 follows at 50, F1 2014 at 38, Valorant at 30, The Sims 4 at 26 and FIFA 17 at 23. Below that, the numbers are formalities: Rocket League and Dirt Rally at 16, Dota 2 at 21, Fortnite at 13, The Witcher 3 at 5, Forza Horizon 5 at 1, Metro Exodus at 1, Cyberpunk 2077 at 2.

Laptops that carry it

The 4 matched models are 2012–2014 mainstream and business machines: Dell's Latitude E5540 at $227, E5440 at $147 and the Rugged 5404 at $266, plus Lenovo's B590 at $100. Roster medians: overall score 33, gaming index inflated to 40.5 by one listing's other attributes — not by this die.

Bottom line

The GT 720M has no performance case in 2026, and the numbers do not pretend otherwise: a single-digit-FPS floor in everything past the esports classics, one-FPS results in the newest racing titles, a bottom-decile ranking. The $100–$267 machines carrying it are purchases of last resort or parts — an E5440 at $147 is a typing machine, nothing else. The catalog keeps this record for completeness and comparison: when a compare page shows an RTX-class chip against it, the multiples make the decade of progress legible.