NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD FirePro M8900

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +444%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 700M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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