NVIDIA GeForce 830M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M – benchmarks and gaming tests

nvidia-geforce-930m-vs-830m

Today we decided to compare two generations of mid-range NVIDIA GPUs with one year between the releases of the two – the GeForce 830M and GeForce 930M. Both cards are used primarily in budget and multimedia notebooks as more powerful (but certainly no gaming-grade) alternatives to Intel’s integrated graphics. It is clear you won’t be able to play at high settings, but will they have enough power at least for low graphics settings?

The two graphics cards have a lot of things in common – both use the GM108 Maxwell GPU, come with 2GB DDR3 memory, the same number of ROP cores and same power consumption of 25W. The most notable differences are higher frequency of 830M and the more shading units and TMUs on the 930M. You can see the differences in the table below.

For GeForce 830M we are using a Dell Vostro 5480 configuration with Intel Core i3-4005U, coupled with 4GB RAM and for the GeForce 930M we used ASUS K555L with Intel Core i5-5200U and 4GB RAM.

GeForce 830MGeForce 930M
GPUGM108GM108
GPU frequency1082MHz (1150MHz Boost)928MHz (941MHz Boost)
Memory2GB2GB
Memory frequency1800MHz1800MHz
Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Memory bus width64-bit64-bit
TMUs1624
ROPs88
Shading units256384
Power consumption (TDP)25W25W

You can find more detailed information regarding 930M (2GB DDR3) here: http://laptopmedia.com/video-card/nvidia-geforce-930m-2gb-ddr3/

You can find more detailed information regarding 830M (2GB DDR3) here: http://laptopmedia.com/video-card/nvidia-geforce-830m-2gb-ddr3/

Download the latest drivers: http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Benchmark tests


Gaming tests

tomb-raider-2013-wallpaper1

Tomb Raider (768p, Low)Tomb Raider (768p, Medium)Tomb Raider (768p, Max)
GeForce 830M83 fps31 fps14 fps
GeForce 930M92 fps (+11%)31 fps (0%)15 fps (+7%)

f1-2014-940x156

F1 2014 (768p, Low)F1 2014 (768p, Medium)F1 2014 (768p, Max)
GeForce 830M72 fps57 fps41 fps
GeForce 930M82 fps (+14%)66 fps (+16%)39 fps (-5%)

thief_4_wallpaper_by_christian2506-d5x4ppb1

Thief (768p, Low)Thief (768p, Medium)Thief (768p, Max)
GeForce 830M26 fps21 fps13 fps
GeForce 930M34 fps (+31%)24 fps (+14%)14 fps (+8%)

gta-5-cover

GTA V (768p, Low)GTA V (768p, Medium)GTA V (768p, Max)
GeForce 830M13 fps4 fps2 fps
GeForce 930M36 fps (+177%)16 fps (+300%)9 fps (+350%)
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
3 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
aliefizzulhaq
aliefizzulhaq
8 years ago

Hello my laptop is core i5 6200u-2.3ghz
Ram 4gb graphic card nvidiagt930m 2gb
Can i run low set GTA V on my laptop?

Narayanan
Narayanan
7 years ago
Reply to  aliefizzulhaq

Yes man You can run. But i recommend you to upgrade your RAM to 8GB For better performance.