GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1096 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units 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 960M		4350 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 2860 (192%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960M, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (344%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be much (approximately 97%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21568 (97%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be a lot (about 136%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 930M, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10112 (136%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.