NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 920M

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
Around 45% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 48 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
Around 36% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1320 MHz
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 716 vs 258

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 48 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	716 vs 258

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 160 vs 119

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	160 vs 119

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

160

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 920M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	716	258
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	160
Geekbench - OpenCL	3722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	8.358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	157.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.374
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	40.443
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	326

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 920M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Curie
Code name	GK208B	G71
Launch date	13 March 2015	9 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1297	1050
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	954 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers