GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 570, which comes with a clock frequency of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 950 MHz. It also features a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 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

GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 2897 (194%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 137600 (956%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be a lot (more or less 97%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21648 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21856 (294%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.