NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M +107%

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

-

938 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

16

96

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

G92

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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