NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1038MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +813%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK208

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GT 720M

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.5

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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