NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M +350%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 700M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Granville

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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