GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 465

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 465, which has core clock speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 802 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 352 SPUs as well as 44 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 465 should in theory be much better than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 88192 (612%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 should be a bit (about 20%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4436 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 will be much (approximately 162%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 930M, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (162%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.