GeForce 930M vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 1100 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 20800 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is quite a bit (more or less 82%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18328 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375 is superior to the GeForce 930M, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8816 (119%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

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