NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock775MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +313%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 700M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Venus

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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