GeForce 930M vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, which makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 64 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M is a bit (more or less 7%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1472 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2976 (40%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.