GeForce GT 440 vs Radeon HD 6930

GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440
Radeon HD 6930
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 6930

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

121 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6930 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6930

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6930

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6930

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 6930
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsCayman (Cayman CE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders96vs1280
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock810 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 6930
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 440Radeon HD 6930
TDP65 wattsvs186 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs1 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    24.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    60.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6930
    1920.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better