GeForce 920M vs GeForce GTX 280

GeForce 920M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 920M
GeForce GTX 280
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 280

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 280

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 280

The GeForce GTX 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 280
GPU NameGK208 (N16V-GM)vsGT200 (G200-302-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,400 million
Shaders384vs240
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock954 MHzvs602 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 280
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 920MGeForce GTX 280
TDP33 wattsvs236 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920M
    7.63 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 280
    19.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920M
    30.53 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 280
    48.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 280
    142.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920M
    732.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 280
    622.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920M
    1730
  • GeForce GTX 280
    2780

Points (higher is better)