GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 280
Summary
GeForce 920M
100%
GeForce GTX 280
160%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce 920M |
| 203 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 280 |
| Around 60% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 280
The GeForce GTX 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 920M | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 (N16V-GM) | vs | GT200 (G200-302-A2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 954 MHz | vs | 602 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 920M | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 920M | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 236 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
GeForce 920M
7.63 GP/s
GeForce GTX 280
19.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 920M
30.53 GT/s
GeForce GTX 280
48.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 920M
14.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 280
142.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 920M
732.70 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 280
622.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 920M
1730
GeForce GTX 280
2780
Points (higher is better)