GeForce 930MX vs GeForce GTX 870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 930MX 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1020MHz vs 967MHz)
Lower TDP (17W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 930MX
783
GeForce GTX 870M
+231%
2599
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
941 MHz
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
Render Config
384
Shading Units
1344
24
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
24
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
24.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
783.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
24.48 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
17W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
GK104
N16S-GMR
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
Maxwell
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
3.54 billion
Unknown
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.0
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
