GeForce 930M vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 690, which features a core clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Geforce GTX 690		13111 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 11621 (780%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 370112 (2570%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (approximately 952%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 211968 (952%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (about 689%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 930M, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51136 (689%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.