NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

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315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

8 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5333 points

7003 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4601 points

6797 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5294 points

7199 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4745 points

6854 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

928 MHz

209% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

941 MHz

1700 MHz

80% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

33 W

36% slightly lower TDP

45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.53 Gigapixels/s

13.6 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.58 Gigatexels/s

40.8 Gigatexels/s

80% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

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384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

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Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 586

373rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2021 April

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 930M vs Radeon Vega 6 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 930M GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce 930M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 6 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 slightly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 6 at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 930M over the Radeon Vega 6.