NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (900MHz vs 758MHz)

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

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M +137%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 700M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

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

-

Compute Units

6

-

192

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Mars

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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