AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +467%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GK208

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

GT 720M

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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