NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (850MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420 +86%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 700M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

192

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.032 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

12.13 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

291.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

12.13 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

Jet

GT 720M

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

56 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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