GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 1080

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1080, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1607 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 1080		21942 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 20452 (1373%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 should be much faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 313280 (2176%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (more or less 1054%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 234848 (1054%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (more or less 1285%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 930M, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 95424 (1285%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.