Radeon HD 8590M and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8590M
GeForce 720M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Sun
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
-
Core clock speed
620 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.50
10.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
36 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A