GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1050, which uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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

The GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory perform 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 should be quite a bit (about 77%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 920M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, by far. (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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.