GeForce 820A vs Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 820A and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 820A stacks up against Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, check out specs charts below.

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire 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 HD 6970M Crossfire here:

Main Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 820A.
  • GeForce 820A is used in Desktops, and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 820A is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 820A is 95 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.
  • GeForce 820A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 820A is 900 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 21−24
ultra / 1080p 12−14
QHD / 1440p 0−1 7−8
4K / 2160p 5−6
low / 720p 1−2 40−45
medium / 1080p 0−1 24−27
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 4100% more, than GeForce 820A.

Full Specs

  GeForce 820A Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GF117 Blackcomb XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 17 March 2014 6 January 2011
Pipelines 96 1920
Core clock speed 775 MHz 680 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 2x1700 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 12.40
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 900 MHz
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size large
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