GeForce 820A vs Radeon R6 Carrizo

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 820A and Radeon R6 Carrizo. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce 820A and Radeon R6 Carrizo. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Radeon R6 Carrizo is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R6 Carrizo is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R6 Carrizo here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon R6 Carrizo
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 12-35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • GeForce 820A has 25% more power consumption, than Radeon R6 Carrizo.
  • GeForce 820A is used in Desktops, and Radeon R6 Carrizo - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 820A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R6 Carrizo - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • GeForce 820A and Radeon R6 Carrizo are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 0−1
ultra / 1080p 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 10−12
medium / 1080p 0−1 2−3
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R6 Carrizo in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1000% more, than GeForce 820A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon R6 Carrizo
Architecture Fermi 2.0 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name GF117 Carrizo
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 17 March 2014 4 June 2015
Pipelines 96 384
Core clock speed 775 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 12.40
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size medium sized
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