NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon E8950

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1000MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +2175%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 700A

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

938 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Amethyst

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

E8950

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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