NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +1061%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF117

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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