NVIDIA GeForce 920A vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920A and AMD Radeon HD 6490M 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, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 920A

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 9.2 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
Around 73% better floating-point performance: 441.6 gflops vs 256 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 836 vs 378

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 4 January 2011
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops vs 256 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	836 vs 378

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490M

Around 39% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1800 MHz
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 514 vs 159
Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4866 vs 3693

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 575 MHz
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	514 vs 159
Geekbench - OpenCL	4866 vs 3693

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6490M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

836

378

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

159

514

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3693

4866

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon HD 6490M
PassMark - G3D Mark	836	378
PassMark - G2D Mark	159	514
Geekbench - OpenCL	3693	4866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.554
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		96.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		6.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		10.814
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2543
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2543

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon HD 6490M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208B	Seymour
Launch date	13 March 2015	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1187	1190
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,193.03
Price now		$1,193.03
Value for money (0-100)		0.39
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops	256 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count		370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0