NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M 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 late

Lower TDP (33W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

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

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +326%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 700M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Heathrow

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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