NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

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

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +262%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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

10.80 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Granville

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

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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