Utilizing a new 14 nm process, the Broadwell ULV chips are specified at just 15 W TDP and therefore suited for thin ultrabooks. Games as of 2014/2015 will usually run fluently only at (very) low settings. Overall, the HD Graphics 6000 outperforms the previous HD 5000 by 20 - 25 percent and offers a performance slightly below a dedicated GeForce 820M. Due to the low TDP, however, the average clock in 3D applications will be significantly lower.
HDMI 2.0, however, is not supported.ĭepending on the specific CPU, the maximum GPU frequency varies between 9 MHz. Up to three displays can be connected via DP 1.2/eDP 1.3 (max. The video engine can now decode H.265 using both fixed function hardware as well as available GPU shaders. Beyond that, there is also a low-end (GT1, 12 EUs), a mid-range (GT2, 24 EUs) and a high-end variant (GT3e, 48 EUs + eDRAM).Īll Broadwell GPUs support OpenCL 2.0 and DirectX 12 (FL 11_1). The HD Graphics 6000 represents the top-end version of the Broadwell GPU family and consists of two slices with 48 EUs. Combined with other improvements such as larger L1 caches and an optimized frontend, the integrated GPU has become faster and more efficient than its predecessor. Three subslices form a "slice" for a total of 24 EUs. Inter alia, the shader arrays called "subslice" have been reorganized and now offer 8 Execution Units (EUs) each. It can be found in several ULV SoCs (15 W TDP) such as the Core i5-5250U or i7-5650U. The so-called GT3 GPU offers 48 EUs (Execution Units) and therefore somewhat more shader power than the previous HD 5000 (40 EUs). Depending on the specific CPU, the maximum GPU frequency varies between 9 MHz.īroadwell features a GPU based on the Intel Gen8 architecture, which has been optimized in various aspects compared to the previous Gen7.5 (Haswell). The Intel HD Graphics 6000 (GT3) is an integrated Broadwell graphics card revealed in Q1 2015. Intel HD Graphics 6000 ► remove from comparison
The 900M series also supports Optimus to automatically switch between an integrated graphics card and the Nvidia GPU.
Therefore, the 930M is best suited for laptops 13 inches in size or larger. The power consumption of the GeForce 930M should be about 33 Watts or less. Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported. GM108 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. See gaming benchmarks below for more details. Less demanding games like F1 2014 or Fifa 15 on the other hand should run in highest settings. This means that demanding games like Evolve are only playable in lowest settings. The performance should be a bit below an average GeForce 840M due to the slower core clock. Similar to GM107, the GM108 supports DirectX 12 with Feature Level 11_0 only. The larger size can process some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing performance.
Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. The 930M should feature the full GM108 with 3 SMMs (384 shader cores, 24 TMUs, and 8 ROPs due to the 64-bit interface).Īnother optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache. Later in 2016, the successor named GeForce 930MX was released that was available with GDDR5.Ĭompared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. Update: The N16S-LP variant (5-12 Watt TDP, Low Power version?) will be available with GDDR5 starting in the first quarter of 2016.
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