AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 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 HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +338%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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