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GeForce 820M vs GeForce 920M

Intro

The GeForce 820M has a clock frequency of 719 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce 920M, which has a clock speed of 954 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, 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% quicker than the GeForce 920M overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce 920M should be much (approximately 165%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 820M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 920M is the winner, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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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