GeForce 930M vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with core speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 100288 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is a lot (about 238%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52928 (238%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (approximately 153%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 930M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11376 (153%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of 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.