AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +990%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

61.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

1.962 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

122.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF117

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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