GeForce GT 720M and Radeon HD 8470 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 720M
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N14M-GE
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
January 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
938 MHz
-
Core clock speed
625 MHz
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
160
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.13
6.200
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 2000 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 2560x1600
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 2560x1600
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-