GeForce GTX 860M vs GeForce 930M

GeForce GTX 860M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Jan 2014
GeForce GTX 860M
GeForce 930M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 930M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    245%
  • GeForce 930M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 860M

Around 145% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 930M

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 860M .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 860M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 860M

The GeForce GTX 860M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MGeForce 930M
GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GX-A1)vsGM108 (N16S-GM)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvsunknown
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs3
Core clock1020 MHzvs928 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MGeForce 930M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 860MGeForce 930M
TDP75 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date13 Jan 2014vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    16.32 GP/s
  • GeForce 930M
    7.42 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    40.80 GT/s
  • GeForce 930M
    22.27 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce 930M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 930M
    712.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    5040
  • GeForce 930M
    2050

Points (higher is better)

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