NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs ATI Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and ATI Radeon 9000 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

ATI Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 250 MHz
12.4x more texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
179x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 716 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	716 vs 4

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9000

Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 123 vs 119

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	123 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

123

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920M	ATI Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	716	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	123
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
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	ATI Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Rage 7
Code name	GK208B	RV250
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	1297	1294
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	954 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers