AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M520 and NVIDIA GeForce 920A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R7 M520

NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 79% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 575 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 20.6 GTexel / s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Around 49% better floating-point performance: 659.2 gflops vs 441.6 gflops
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
4.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17889 vs 3693

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops vs 441.6 gflops
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889 vs 3693

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Pipelines	384 vs 320
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17889

3693

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce 920A
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889	3693
PassMark - G3D Mark		836
PassMark - G2D Mark		159

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce 920A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Oland	GK208B
Launch date	18 April 2017	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	1181	1183
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	441.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	384
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	9.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6