GeForce 930MX vs Radeon HD 8790M

GeForce 930MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 930MX
Radeon HD 8790M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8790M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 930MX
    100%
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    103%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 930MX

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 8790M

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 930MXRadeon HD 8790M
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GMR)vsMars (Mars XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock952 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 930MXRadeon HD 8790M
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 930MXRadeon HD 8790M
TDP17 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2016vs1 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 930MX
    15.23 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 930MX
    22.85 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    21.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 930MX
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 930MX
    731.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 930MX
    2050
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    2130

Points (higher is better)

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