NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 6 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (89.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 +388%

0.88 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 700A

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

-

938 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

89.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.00 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

880.0 GFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

M98

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

M98 XT L2 (216-0732023)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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