AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 M470X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1100MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +995%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jul 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

775 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GF117

Emerald XT

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 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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