AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +860%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 720M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

20.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF117

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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