NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M +82%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 700A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Sun

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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