NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (938MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8830M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M +344%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Radeon HD 8830M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 700A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

775 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

938 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

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

10.00 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Venus

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Venus LE (216-0846030)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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