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    GeForce GTX 850M vs GeForce 930M

    GeForce GTX 850M
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 12 Mar 2014
    GeForce GTX 850M
    GeForce 930M
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce 930M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      215%
    • GeForce 930M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850M

    Around 115% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 850M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 850M

    The GeForce GTX 850M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 850MGeForce 930M
    GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GT-A1)vsGM108 (N16S-GM)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs0 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvsunknown
    Shaders640vs384
    Compute Units5vs3
    Core clock902 MHzvs928 MHz
    ROPs16vs8
    TMUs40vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 850MGeForce 930M
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed1001 MHz
    2002 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 850MGeForce 930M
    TDP45 wattsvs33 watts
    Release Date12 Mar 2014vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      14.43 GP/s
    • GeForce 930M
      7.42 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      36.10 GT/s
    • GeForce 930M
      22.27 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      32.00 GB/s
    • GeForce 930M
      14.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      1154.60 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 930M
      712.70 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      4420
    • GeForce 930M
      2050

    Points (higher is better)

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