GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1060, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator 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 1060		12359 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 10869 (729%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform much faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 182208 (1265%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be quite a bit (about 441%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98208 (441%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64864 (874%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.