AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +1108%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jul 2014

London

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GF117

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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