GeForce 920MX vs GeForce 9800 GTX

GeForce 920MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 920MX
GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 920MX
    108%
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 920MX

124 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 8% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 920MX

HWBench recommends GeForce 920MX

The GeForce 920MX is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce 9800 GTX
GPU NameGM108 (N16V-GMR1-S)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs754 million
Shaders384vs128
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1072 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce 9800 GTX
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 920MXGeForce 9800 GTX
TDP16 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs28 Mar 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920MX
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920MX
    1730
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    1600

Points (higher is better)