As the LP version is clocked only at 457 MHz + Boost it may feature more shaders (or a high Boost). The shader count for these low power 930M are also unknown. The performance of the GDDR5 version is still unknown. The DDR3 variant should be approximately 10% slower than the 25 Watt version. In addition to the "normal" 25 Watt 930M, there is also a low power variant with a TDP of 12 Watt and support for DDR3 and GDDR5.
It is based on the last years GeForce 840M.
The NVIDIA GeForce 930M (sometimes also called Nvidia GeForce GT 930M) is a (lower) mid-range, DirectX 11-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2015. NVIDIA GeForce 930M ► remove from comparison The Lakefield SoCs and therefore the integrated GPU are manufactured in the modern 10nm process at Intel that should be comparable to the 7nm process of TSMC. Up to now VRS is only supported by the new Nvidia Turing architecture ( GTX 1650 and up). With this technique early results show up to 1.3x performance in Unreal Engine POC and 1.2x speedup in Civ 6. shade object in the background or behind fog with less resolution (up to using only one source for a 4x4 block). With it game designers can decide where to spend shading time and e.g. The GPU performance should be a bit slower than the old Intel HD Graphics 620 and therefore only some low demanding games like League of Legends should run with the UHD Graphics.Ī special new feature of the Gen11 graphics card is the new Variable Rate Shading (VRS) support. The TDP of the whole SoC is specified at 7 Watt. The clock rate ranges between 200 MHz (guaranteed base clock) up to 500 MHz (boost). It offers no dedicated graphics memory (no eDRAM cache like the Intel Iris Graphics 655 predecessor of the Coffee Lake SoCs). The Intel UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 with 48 EUs) is an integrated graphics card in the Lakefield SoCs (e.g. Therefore, the GPU is best suited for laptops from 13-inch and up. The TDP of the card should be rated at about 15 to 30 Watt (depending on the version, clock speeds and memory). Therefore, demanding games from 2015 should run fluently in low to medium settings and WXGA resolution. The GDDR5 version however pushes ahead 20% (even 30% if paired with a fast desktop quad-core, but we lack 940M reference scores). According to our benchmarks (see below), the DDR3 version is very similar to the old 940M (due to only minor increased clock rates). The performance greatly depends on the used graphics memory and chip.
The Dell Inspiversion however had the GM108 chip with 384 shaders clocked at 1083 - 1189 MHz. featured 512 shader cores (GM107) clocked at 795 - 861 MHz. The 940MX in the Acer Aspire E5-774G e.g. However, most notebook vendors will use the slower DDR3 version of the 940MX that clocks only a few percent faster than the old GeForce 940M (1122 versus 1072 MHz base clock e.g.).įor the GDDR5 version of the 940MX there appears to be also a variant with the GM107-B chip with 512 shaders instead of the 384 but lower clock speeds. Therefore, it is similar to the Maxwell GPU in the Microsoft Surface Book but with more memory and higher clock speeds. Compared to the older card, the new one is based on the same chip but now supports faster GDDR5. It has been announced in the first quarter of 2016 and is the refresh of the GeForce 940M. The Nvidia GeForce 940MX is a mid-range laptop graphics card with DirectX 12 support (FL 11_0). NVIDIA GeForce 940MX ► remove from comparison