AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

VS

AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +540%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce 720M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

20.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF117

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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