NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce 930M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

315 points

4302 points

1265% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

104 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

53 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

76 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

41 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.85 points

2581.07 points

4976% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5294 points

75551 points

1327% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4745 points

75827 points

1498% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

928 MHz

1455 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

941 MHz

1755 MHz

86% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

96 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.4 GB/s

192 GB/s

1233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W

51% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.53 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

646% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.58 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

521% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2560

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

373rd of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 930M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce 930M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly 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 RTX 4050 Laptop also has a significantly 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, the GeForce 930M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce 930M.