NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A +259%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce 940A

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GM108

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

Unknown

116 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

33W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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