NVIDIA GeForce 920A vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920A and AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
  • Around 97% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 846 vs 567
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 23 May 2013
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 846 vs 567

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 168
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 760 MHz vs 575 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 226 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
846
567
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
168
226
Name NVIDIA GeForce 920A AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 846 567
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 226
Geekbench - OpenCL 3693

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 920A AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 TeraScale 3
Code name GK208B Scrapper
Launch date 13 March 2015 23 May 2013
Place in performance rating 1143 700
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 575 MHz 760 MHz
Floating-point performance 441.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 9.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 65 Watt
Boost clock speed 844 MHz
Transistor count 1,303 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 IGP

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3