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GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 295

Intro

The GeForce 930M features a GPU core speed of 928 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 295, which uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 999 MHz on this specific card. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 28 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
GeForce 930M 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 209376 (1454%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be quite a bit (approximately 314%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M 22272 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 69888 (314%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M 7424 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 24832 (334%)

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 GeForce GTX 295
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 January 8, 2009
Code Name GM108 G200b
Memory 2048 MB 896 MB (x2)
Core Speed 928 MHz 576 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1998 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 289 watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 223776 MB/sec
Texel Rate 22272 Mtexels/sec 92160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 7424 Mpixels/sec 32256 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 240 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 24 80 (x2)
Render Output Units 8 28 (x2)
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 448-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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