NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (29W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A +272%

0.298 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

G84

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

29W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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