NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230 +83%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 700A

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Jet

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

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

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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