GeForce 920MX vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce 920MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 920MX
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 920MX
    100%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    122%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 920MX

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Around 22% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

The GeForce GTS 450 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameGM108 (N16V-GMR1-S)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units3vs4
Core clock1072 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTS 450
TDP16 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920MX
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920MX
    1730
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)