NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 930M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock941MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 930M

0.723 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +128%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 930M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

928 MHz

Base Clock

-

941 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.528 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

22.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

722.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

22.58 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Saturn

N16S-GM

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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