NVIDIA GeForce 920A vs AMD Radeon R9 M265X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920A and AMD Radeon R9 M265X 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 920A

AMD Radeon R9 M265X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 21 March 2014
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M265X

2.7x more texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
Around 81% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 441.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1139 vs 836
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 206 vs 159
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8850 vs 3693

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s vs 9.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 384
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops vs 441.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1139 vs 836
PassMark - G2D Mark	206 vs 159
Geekbench - OpenCL	8850 vs 3693

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M265X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

836

1139

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

159

206

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3693

8850

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon R9 M265X
PassMark - G3D Mark	836	1139
PassMark - G2D Mark	159	206
Geekbench - OpenCL	3693	8850
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		20.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		525.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.076
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		94.404
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1972
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1765
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3214
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1972
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1765
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3214

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	AMD Radeon R9 M265X
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208B	Venus
Launch date	13 March 2015	21 March 2014
Place in performance rating	1183	1184
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s	25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Boost clock speed		625 MHz
Compute units		10
Transistor count		1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	72 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore