GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 950M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950M, which features a clock speed of 914 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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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 quite a bit superior to the GeForce 930M overall. (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%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is superior to the GeForce 930M, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.