GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M265, which features GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 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

Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 1766 (119%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M265 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (122%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M is much (approximately 28%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4872 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1624 (28%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.