GeForce 930M vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which features a core clock frequency of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 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

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 11859 (796%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 480 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 247744 (1720%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be a lot (approximately 624%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139008 (624%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28416 (383%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.