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).

 

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: 1140 vs 836
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 207 vs 159
  • 2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8856 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 1140 vs 836
PassMark - G2D Mark 207 vs 159
Geekbench - OpenCL 8856 vs 3693

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
836
1140
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
159
207
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3693
8856
Name NVIDIA GeForce 920A AMD Radeon R9 M265X
PassMark - G3D Mark 836 1140
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 207
Geekbench - OpenCL 3693 8856
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 1182 1183
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