GeForce 930MX vs GeForce GTX 960M

GeForce 930MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 930MX
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 930MX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    259%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 930MX

58 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 960M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

Around 159% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 930MXGeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GMR)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,870 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock952 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce 930MXGeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 930MXGeForce GTX 960M
TDP17 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 930MX
    15.23 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 930MX
    22.85 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 930MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 930MX
    731.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 930MX
    2050
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320

Points (higher is better)

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