NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M +80%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

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

700 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Mars

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

77 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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