NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +275%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 700A

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Broadway

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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