GeForce 930A: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce 930A provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.29% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 930A sales 13 March 2015. This is a Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16.02 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 33 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 930A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking743
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency6.83of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM108
Market segmentLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 930A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 930A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed928 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed941 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)33 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate22.58of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.7227 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 930A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 930A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1001 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth16.02 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 930A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 930A, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA5.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 930A. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 930A 3.29

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 930A 1267

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GeForce 930A 5317

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 930A is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 930A's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 930A is Radeon R7 M275DX, which is faster by 2% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.

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