GeForce 930M vs GeForce GT 440 1.5GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, which comes with a core clock speed of 594 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 144 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 24 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 930M		1490 points
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 650 (77%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB should perform much faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 28800 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M will be a lot (approximately 56%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8016 (56%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is superior to the GeForce 930M, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6832 (92%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.