GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce 920M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 920M
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 920M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    1004%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 920M

87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 904% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGK208 (N16V-GM)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock954 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 1060
TDP33 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920M
    7.63 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920M
    30.53 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920M
    732.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920M
    1730
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380

Points (higher is better)