NVIDIA GeForce 820M vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 820M and ATI Radeon HD 3850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 21% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 668 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1802 MHz vs 1660 MHz
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 490 vs 401
• 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 114 vs 29

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850

• Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 10.69 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
• 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
• Around 78% better floating-point performance: 427.5 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 820M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	490 401
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	114 29
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 3345

Compare specifications (specs)