NVIDIA GeForce 820A vs AMD Radeon HD 8750M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 820A and AMD Radeon HD 8750M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 820A

AMD Radeon HD 8750M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 620 MHz

Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 26 February 2013
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 620 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8750M

Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 18.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
2x better floating-point performance: 595.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1022 vs 556
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 200 vs 158
Around 97% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5884 vs 2983
Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2221 vs 1716
Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2221 vs 1716
Around 97% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3351 vs 1705
Around 97% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3351 vs 1705

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	18.6 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	595.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1022 vs 556
PassMark - G2D Mark	200 vs 158
Geekbench - OpenCL	5884 vs 2983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2221 vs 1716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2221 vs 1716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351 vs 1705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351 vs 1705

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 820A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8750M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

556

1022

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

158

200

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

2983

5884

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1716

2221

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1716

2221

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1705

3351

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1705

3351

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	AMD Radeon HD 8750M
PassMark - G3D Mark	556	1022
PassMark - G2D Mark	158	200
Geekbench - OpenCL	2983	5884
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1716	2221
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1716	2221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1705	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1705	3351
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		8.274
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		271.177
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.834
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		70.596
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1734
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1734
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	AMD Radeon HD 8750M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF117	Mars
Launch date	17 March 2014	26 February 2013
Place in performance rating	1282	1285
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	620 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	384
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	18.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		775 MHz
Compute units		6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0