NVIDIA started GeForce 820A sales 17 March 2014. This is a Fermi 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 15 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 820A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	947
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF117
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 March 2014 (10 years ago)
Current price	$238	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce 820A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 820A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	775 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	585 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	12.40	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 820A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 820A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 820A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 820A, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	2.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 820A. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 820A 1.43

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GeForce 820A 555

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GeForce 820A 2978

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 820A is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 820A's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

Radeon HD 6570 100.7

GF117 100

Radeon HD 3870 100

GeForce 820A 100

GeForce 615 98.6

Radeon HD 8670D 95.8

Mobility Radeon 93.01

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 820A is Radeon HD 3870, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.