NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +860%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 700M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

96

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Neptune

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

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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