GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 4092 (275%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G is 1144% quicker than the GeForce 930M overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 164800 (1144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be a lot (about 180%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40128 (180%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce 930M, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23776 (320%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.