AMD Radeon R8 M350DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M350DX and NVIDIA GeForce 820A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R8 M350DX

NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M350DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 775 MHz
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1843 vs 1716
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1843 vs 1716
6.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19471 vs 2978

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 775 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1843 vs 1716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1843 vs 1716
Geekbench - OpenCL	19471 vs 2978

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1705 vs 1662
Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1705 vs 1662

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1705 vs 1662
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1705 vs 1662

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M350DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 820A

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1843

1716

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1843

1716

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19471

2978

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1662

1705

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1662

1705

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M350DX	NVIDIA GeForce 820A
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1843	1716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1843	1716
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1330
Geekbench - OpenCL	19471	2978
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1662	1705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1662	1705
PassMark - G3D Mark		556
PassMark - G2D Mark		158

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M350DX	NVIDIA GeForce 820A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Jet	GF117
Launch date	12 December 2015	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	1276	1278
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	775 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Transistor count	1,040 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		297.6 gflops
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		12.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3