NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M 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 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M +263%

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

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

4.000 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G96C

GT 720M

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

121 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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