NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1038MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +813%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

192

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

GM204

GT 720M

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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