GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 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 260X		4381 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 2891 (194%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X is 622% faster than the GeForce 930M in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 89600 (622%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a lot (approximately 177%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39328 (177%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10176 (137%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.