GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) vs GeForce 930M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce 930M, which comes with GPU core speed of 928 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 930M should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M should be quite a bit (more or less 158%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13632 (158%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3104 (72%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.