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.

 

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 1180 1182
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