GeForce 930M vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5700 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 930M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 444352 (3086%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (about 847%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 188688 (847%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 86336 (1163%)

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 (in units of megabytes 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 the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.