NVIDIA GeForce 920A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920A and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 920A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 550 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 9.2 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
5x better floating-point performance: 441.6 gflops vs 88 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 846 vs 188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 5 May 2010
Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 80
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops vs 88 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	846 vs 188

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	382 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

846

188

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

382

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
PassMark - G3D Mark	846	188
PassMark - G2D Mark	168	382
Geekbench - OpenCL	3693

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GK208B	M92
Launch date	13 March 2015	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	1143	410
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	441.6 gflops	88 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	80
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count		242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory		0