NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (29W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M +263%

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

29W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G84

GT 720M

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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