NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +1342%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

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GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1038 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GM204

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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