NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce 720A NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1127MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +1823%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

938 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GM204

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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