AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X Mobile 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 RX 580X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1077MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X Mobile +1605%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X Mobile

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GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GK208

Polaris 20M XT

GPU Variant

GT 720M

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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