GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 965M, which comes with a clock frequency of 944 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 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 965M		5650 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 4160 (279%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 965M should perform much faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (344%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M is quite a bit (more or less 171%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38144 (171%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 965M is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22784 (307%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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.