GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1002 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 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 560 Ti		3466 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 1976 (133%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be 791% faster than the GeForce 930M overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113856 (791%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a lot (approximately 136%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30336 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18880 (254%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.