NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +1215%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

96

104

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF117

N16E-GXX-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

Board Design

148W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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