NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

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

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +251%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 700M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

192

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Heathrow

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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