GeForce 930M vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1260 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR6X RAM running at 1188 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 8960 SPUs, 280 Texture Address Units, and 112 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		934298 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 919898 (6388%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB will be quite a bit (more or less 1484%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		352800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 330528 (1484%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		141120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133696 (1801%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.