GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 950M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950M, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 914 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 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 GTX 950M		3330 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 1840 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 950M should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (122%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be quite a bit (more or less 64%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14288 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M is a lot (about 97%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 930M, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (97%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.