GeForce 920MX vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

GeForce 920MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 920MX
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 920MX
    100%
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    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 Rev. 2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

The GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU NameGM108 (N16V-GMR1-S)vsGF116 (GF116-200-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 Rev. 2
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 Rev. 2
TDP16 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920MX
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920MX
    1730
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    2120

Points (higher is better)