GeForce 930M vs GeForce GT 340 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 340 1GB, which has clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 96 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 340 1GB should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (278%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M should be quite a bit (about 27%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4672 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3024 (69%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.