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GeForce 930M vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

The GeForce 930M features clock speeds of 928 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features a core clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 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 R9 295X2 21205 points
GeForce 930M 1490 points
Difference: 19715 (1323%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 640000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 625600 (4344%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is a lot (about 1509%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M 22272 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 336064 (1509%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M 7424 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 122880 (1655%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce 930M

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 930M Radeon R9 295X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 April 2014
Code Name GM108 Vesuvius
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB (x2)
Core Speed 928 MHz 1018 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 5000 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 500 watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 640000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 22272 Mtexels/sec 358336 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 7424 Mpixels/sec 130304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 2816 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 24 176 (x2)
Render Output Units 8 64 (x2)
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 512-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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.

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GeForce 930M

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Radeon R9 295X2

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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