NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 2 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +817%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

May 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

-

938 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

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

17.20 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Saturn

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

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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