NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile +405%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

VS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 700A

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

96

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

12.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.505 TFLOPS

297.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

24.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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