ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +284%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Dec 2013

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GK208

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

GT 720M

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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