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GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 295

Intro

The GeForce 920M comes with a core clock speed of 954 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 295, which uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 999 MHz on this card. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 295 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 920M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
GeForce 920M 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 209376 (1454%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be quite a bit (about 202%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 920M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 920M 30528 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 61632 (202%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 920M 7632 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 24624 (323%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 920M GeForce GTX 295
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 January 8, 2009
Code Name GK208 G200b
Memory 2048 MB 896 MB (x2)
Core Speed 954 MHz 576 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1998 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 289 watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 223776 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30528 Mtexels/sec 92160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 7632 Mpixels/sec 32256 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 240 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 32 80 (x2)
Render Output Units 8 28 (x2)
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 448-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 920M

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