GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce 930M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce 930M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 928 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 930M, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M is much (about 1137%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20472 (1137%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6524 (725%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.