NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (967MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +793%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GK208

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GT 720M

Kepler

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.1

3.0

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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