NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and AMD Radeon HD 8530M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 716 vs 490
  • Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3636 vs 2455
  • 91.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3636 vs 39.6
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 10 January 2014
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 650 MHz
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 vs 490
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3636 vs 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3636 vs 39.6

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8530M

  • Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 16.8 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 81% better floating-point performance: 537.6 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 438 vs 119
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 16.8 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 537.6 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 438 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8530M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
716
490
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
438
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3636
2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3636
39.6
Name NVIDIA GeForce 920M AMD Radeon HD 8530M
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 490
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 438
Geekbench - OpenCL 3722
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 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3636 39.6
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 326

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 920M AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GK208B Mars
Launch date 13 March 2015 10 January 2014
Place in performance rating 1297 598
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 954 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 384
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s 16.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,040 million
Boost clock speed 700 MHz

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 3.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers