NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

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NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 35W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M +62%

0.389 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

144

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GF116

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

35W

-

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

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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