AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1200MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +1800%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK208

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

GT 720M

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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