NVIDIA GeForce 930A
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8870M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

625
Place in performance rating
517
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN
GM108
Code name
Venus
Desktop
Type
Laptop
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
18 December 2012 (8 years ago)
$350
Price now
$338
1.03
Value for money
0.61
GM108
GPU code name
Venus
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
640
928 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
941 MHz
Boost Clock
775 MHz
no data
Transistor count
1,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
22.58
Texture fill rate
31.00
722.7 gflops
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
941 MHz
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
no data
Number of transistors
1,500 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
no data
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
2002 MHz
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
16.02 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 930A or AMD Radeon HD 8870M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 930A

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8870M

1.91% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($338 vs $350)

More pipelines (640 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 16.02 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 930A or AMD Radeon HD 8870M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8870M .

NVIDIA GeForce 930A versus AMD Radeon HD 8870M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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