GeForce 930M vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960M, which comes with a clock frequency of 1096 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 960M		4350 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 2860 (192%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 960M should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (344%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be quite a bit (more or less 97%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21568 (97%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a lot (more or less 136%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 930M, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10112 (136%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.