AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Boost Clock758MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +1096%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1362 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

3.482 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

217.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GK208

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

GT 720M

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

366 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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