Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs GeForce GT 720M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1250MHz vs 758MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
3392 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+2979%
8960
GeForce GT 720M
291
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Dec 2013
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
GeForce 700M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
719 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
758 MHz
786 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
DDR3
2048bit
Memory Bus
64bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
3584
Shading Units
192
224
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.032 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.13 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
291.1 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.13 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
33W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GK208
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
GT 720M
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
