NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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NVIDIA GeForce 720M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M +478%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

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240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GM107

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

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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