GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has a clock speed of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It features 1152 SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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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 GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
GeForce 920M		1180 points
	Difference: 11005 (933%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 920M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 182208 (1265%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be quite a bit (more or less 255%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 920M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 77904 (255%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be a lot (more or less 847%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 920M, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64656 (847%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.