AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +646%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce 720M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

96

56

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

2.500 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

20.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF117

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

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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