NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce 720M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +1533%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

1664

16

TMUs

104

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

75.39 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

GM204

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

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

6.4

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