NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M +823%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

2

96

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

11W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

G86

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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