GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1050, which comes with a clock frequency of 1354 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 32 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 1050		6657 points
GeForce 920M		1180 points
	Difference: 5477 (464%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 920M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 100288 (696%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 77%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 920M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23632 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce 920M, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35696 (468%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.