AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 M270X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1000MHz vs 938MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +753%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

775 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF117

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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