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    GeForce 930MX vs Radeon R5 M230

    GeForce 930MX
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Mar 2016
    GeForce 930MX
    Radeon R5 M230
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Jan 2014
    Radeon R5 M230

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce 930MX
      115%
    • Radeon R5 M230
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce 930MX

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 15% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R5 M230

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce 930MX

    HWBench recommends GeForce 930MX

    The GeForce 930MX is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce 930MXRadeon R5 M230
    GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GMR)vsJet (Jet PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
    Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
    Shaders384vs320
    Compute Units3vs5
    Core clock952 MHzvs780 MHz
    ROPs16vs8
    TMUs24vs20

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce 930MXRadeon R5 M230
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    2000 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce 930MXRadeon R5 M230
    TDP17 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date1 Mar 2016vs7 Jan 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce 930MX
      15.23 GP/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      6.84 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce 930MX
      22.85 GT/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      17.10 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce 930MX
      14.40 GB/s
    • Radeon R5 M230
      16.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce 930MX
      731.10 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R5 M230
      547.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce 930MX
      2050
    • Radeon R5 M230
      1770

    Points (higher is better)

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