GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 880M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 880M, which has a core clock frequency of 954 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1536 SPUs, 128 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 880M		6360 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 4870 (327%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 880M should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113600 (789%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M is much (about 448%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 99840 (448%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 880M is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23104 (311%)

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 past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high 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 amount of texture units of the card 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.