The NVIDIA GeForce 930M is a lower-mid-range GPU that’s included in budget notebooks or multimedia-oriented ones. It was released in March 2015 and it is based on last year’s GeForce 840M with GM108 GPU inside. We are expecting the GPU to be marginally faster than its predecessor since the Maxwell generation GPUs mostly improve power consumption and don’t emphasize on performance as much. However, the TDP is rated at 25W (for this particular version as there’s another variant with GDDR5 memory controller).
GeForce 930M offers 2GB of DDR3 memory, 16 ROPs, 32 texture mapping units and 384 shaders. The graphics processor runs at 928MHz with Boost clock being 941MHz which should be enough to run most of the new games at lower settings or other software that isn’t that demanding. Memory speed is 1800MHz with a bus width of 64 bit. Notable features like DirectX 12, NVIDIA Optimus support, OpenGL 4.5 and CUDA cores are at hand.
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NVIDIA GeForce 930M (2GB DDR3) - benchmark tests
NVIDIA GeForce 930M (2GB DDR3) vs competitors:
| # | GPU | 3DM Fire Strike (G) | Performance Difference | In laptops starting at... | Price Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188. | Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 | 1546 |  1% | $894.99 | - |
| 189. | NVIDIA GeForce 840M (4GB DDR3) | 1531 |  1% | N/A | - |
| 190. | NVIDIA GeForce 930M (2GB DDR3) | 1512 | 1% | N/A | - |
| 191. | NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M (2GB DDR3) | 1496 | 0% | N/A | - |
| 192. | Intel UHD Graphics G1 | 1493 | 2% | $350.00 | - |
| 193. | Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 | 1465 | - | N/A | - |
NVIDIA GeForce 930M (2GB DDR3) - gaming tests
We’ve tested NVIDIA GeForce 930M (2GB DDR3) on…
| # | Laptop series | 3DMark Fire Strike (G) | Unigine Heaven 3.0 | Unigine Heaven 4.0 | Unigine Superposition | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ASUS X555L | 1511.00 | 429.00 | 317.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 2. | Toshiba Satellite L50-C | 1501.00 | 420.00 | 350.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 3. | ASUS X555 / K555 | 1515.00 | 421.00 | 350.00 | 0.00 | N/A |
| 4. | Dell Vostro 14 5459 | 1520.00 | 422.00 | 350.00 | 0.00 | N/A |