NVIDIA GeForce 920A vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920A and AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 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 920A

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 84% higher texture fill rate: 9.2 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
2.2x better floating-point performance: 441.6 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 21 December 2013
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 33 Watt

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 575 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	846
PassMark - G2D Mark	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	3693
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1681
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3290

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208B	Caicos
Launch date	13 March 2015	21 December 2013
Place in performance rating	1143	1145
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops	200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	19 Watt
Transistor count		370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1334 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3