NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 920MX, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

1070% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

52 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

668% significantly higher Blender score

47.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

598% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

4274 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

694% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4210 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

1009% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3723 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

749% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4072 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

963% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3591 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

965 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

993 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

1458% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

16 W

931% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

879% significantly higher pixel rate

7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

552% significantly higher texture rate

23.83 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

700% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

415th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce 920MX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the GeForce 920MX in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce 920MX has a significantly lower TDP at 16 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce 920MX.