AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +625%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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