AMD Radeon E8860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 37W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8860 +168%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860

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GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GF117

Venus MCM

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

37W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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