GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which features core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 Texture Address Units and 48 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 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 a lot better than 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 should be much (approximately 255%) faster with regards to texture 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 is quite a bit (more or less 847%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 920M, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.