NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +284%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 700M

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

192

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Broadway

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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