GeForce 920MX vs GeForce GTX 960

GeForce 920MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 920MX
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 920MX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    600%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 920MX

104 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 960 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 960

Around 500% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTX 960
GPU NameGM108 (N16V-GMR1-S)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,940 million
Shaders384vs1024
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1072 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 920MXGeForce GTX 960
TDP16 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 920MX
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 920MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 920MX
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 920MX
    1730
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)