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GeForce 820M vs GeForce 920M

Intro

The GeForce 820M uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 719 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce 920M, which has core clock speeds of 954 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce 920M		1180 points
GeForce 820M		850 points
	Difference: 330 (39%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 820M is 11% faster than the GeForce 920M overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 820M		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 920M will be quite a bit (about 165%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 820M. (explain)

GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 820M		11504 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19024 (165%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 920M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 820M		2876 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4756 (165%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce 820M	GeForce 920M
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	February 2014	March 12 2015
Code Name	GF117	GK208
Memory	2048 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	719 MHz	954 MHz
Memory Speed	2000 MHz	1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	15 watts	(Unknown) watts
Bandwidth	16000 MB/sec	14400 MB/sec
Texel Rate	11504 Mtexels/sec	30528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	2876 Mpixels/sec	7632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	96	384
Texture Mapping Units	16	32
Render Output Units	4	8
Bus Type	DDR3	DDR3
Bus Width	64-bit	64-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	(Unknown) million	(Unknown) million
Bus	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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