NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and AMD Radeon HD 6430M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 920M

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 99% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 480 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
Around 94% better floating-point performance: 297.6 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 723 vs 193
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	723 vs 193
PassMark - G2D Mark	119 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6430M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

723

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

106

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920M	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
PassMark - G3D Mark	723	193
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	106
Geekbench - OpenCL	3650
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	8.358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	157.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.374
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	40.443
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	326

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920M	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208B	Seymour
Launch date	13 March 2015	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1304	1306
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	954 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	3.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
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	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers