NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +338%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 700A

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 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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