NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M, 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

1446 points

359% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

305% significantly higher Blender score

50.85 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

256% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5123 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5333 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

372% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5294 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4745 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

928 MHz

0.43% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

941 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

735% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

33 W

127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

561% significantly higher pixel rate

7.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

267% significantly higher texture rate

22.58 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

233% significantly more shading units

384

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

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

372nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce 930M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the GeForce 930M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce 930M 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 970M 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, the GeForce 930M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970M is faster than the GeForce 930M.