NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +467%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 700M

Generation

Solar System

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

192

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Saturn

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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