AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX, 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

2142 points

998% significantly better overall score

195 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

398% significantly higher Blender score

70.10 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

672% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5764 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

811% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5367 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

652% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5680 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

875% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5044 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

1020 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1455% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

17 W

782% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

396% significantly higher pixel rate

8.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

644% significantly higher texture rate

24.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

499% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% 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

199th of 586

434th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 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

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce 930MX specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the GeForce 930MX in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 480 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 Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce 930MX has a significantly lower TDP at 17 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. 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 Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce 930MX.