NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +646%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 700M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Saturn

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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