NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 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 23% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 2x more texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • Around 20% better floating-point performance: 297.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 716 vs 336
  • 4.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3722 vs 782
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 vs 336
Geekbench - OpenCL 3722 vs 782

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 164 vs 119
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 164 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
716
336
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
164
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3722
782
Name NVIDIA GeForce 920M AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 3722 782
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 R5 235 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GK208B Caicos
Launch date 13 March 2015 21 December 2013
Place in performance rating 1297 1299
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series

Technical info

Core clock speed 954 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 160
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s 6.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 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
AMD Eyefinity