Radeon HD 8870M and GeForce GT 720M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8870M vs GeForce GT 720M
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
GeForce GT 720M
475
Radeon HD 8870M
GeForce GT 720M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Venus
N14M-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
April 2013
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
938 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.00
12.13
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+