AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M315

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M315 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 R5 M315 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M315 +150%

0.745 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M315

VS

GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

23.28 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

745.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

745.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

46.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

GF117

Meso LE (216-0864046)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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