NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +1133%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 700M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Amethyst

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

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

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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