GeForce 930M and FireGL V8600 - video card comparison

GeForce 930M

FireGL V8600

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

N16S-GM-B/S, N16S-LP

R600

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

March 2015

May 2007

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

941 MHz

-

Core clock speed

928 MHz

688 MHz

Floating-point performance

722.7 gflops

440.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

-

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

320

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

159 Watt

Texture fill rate

22.58

11.01

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

1736 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

111.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-