AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

390% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

326% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

256% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

719 MHz

139% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

163% significantly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

33 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

427% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

427% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

166% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

489th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the GeForce GT 720M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 720M has a slightly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 is better than the GeForce GT 720M.