NVIDIA GeForce 930A vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 930A vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

315 points

Identical

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

6 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5317 points

5938 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5317 points

6089 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

928 MHz

1029 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

941 MHz

1124 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

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64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

16.02 GB/s

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16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W

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33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.53 Gigapixels/s

8.99 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.58 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

374th of 586

370th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 930A vs GeForce 840M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 840M GPU is faster than the GeForce 930A in gaming.

The GeForce 840M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce 840M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, both the GeForce 930A and the GeForce 840M have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 840M over the GeForce 930A.