NVIDIA GeForce 820A vs ATI Radeon 9250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 820A and ATI Radeon 9250 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 820A

ATI Radeon 9250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820A

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 240 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
185.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 556 vs 3
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 158 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 1 March 2004
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	556 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	158 vs 127

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250

77.4x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 820A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

556

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

158

127

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	ATI Radeon 9250
PassMark - G3D Mark	556	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	158	127
Geekbench - OpenCL	2983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1705

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 820A	ATI Radeon 9250
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 7
Code name	GF117	RV280
Launch date	17 March 2014	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1282	1279
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR