NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +348%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 700M

Generation

Vancouver

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

192

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

212 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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