NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1127MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +1823%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

775 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF117

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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