NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M270X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

795
Place in performance rating
591
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GF117
Code name
Venus
Desktop
Type
Desktop
27 November 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
21 March 2014 (7 years ago)
$310
Price now
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0.09
Value for money
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GF117
GPU code name
Venus
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
640
775 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
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Boost Clock
775 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
1,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
15 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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12.40
Texture fill rate
31.00
297.6 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
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Compute units
10
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
775 MHz
585 million
Number of transistors
1,500 million
15 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1125 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
1

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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PowerTune
+
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
+
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Enduro
-
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DualGraphics
1
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Switchable graphics
1

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 11
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
Not Listed
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and AMD Radeon R9 M270X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M or AMD Radeon R9 M270X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
AMD Radeon R9 M270X
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M270X

3.63% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (640 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M or AMD Radeon R9 M270X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M270X .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M versus AMD Radeon R9 M270X performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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