AMD Radeon HD 8670M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8670M 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

74 points

121 points

63% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5532 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5539 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

775 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

775 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

526th of 586

489th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon HD 8670M vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 720M beats the Radeon HD 8670M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon HD 8670M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon HD 8670M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 720M over the Radeon HD 8670M.