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GeForce 8800 GT 256MB vs GeForce 930M

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 256MB has a GPU clock speed of 600 MHz, and the 256 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 700 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 112 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce 930M, which has a core clock frequency of 928 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB should be 211% faster than the GeForce 930M overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 44800 MB/sec
GeForce 930M 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 30400 (211%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 256MB is much (about 51%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M 22272 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11328 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M 7424 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2176 (29%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 930M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Dec 2007 March 12 2015
Code Name G92 GM108
Memory 256 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 928 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 44800 MB/sec 14400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 22272 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 7424 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 384
Texture Mapping Units 56 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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