NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M +107%

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF117

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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