NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +990%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

VS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 700A

Generation

Crystal 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

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.66 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.31 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.962 TFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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