GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 1050 3GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1392 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 71616 (497%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be much (about 200%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44544 (200%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25984 (350%)

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 moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.