GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3 vs Radeon HD 5970

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Jan 2016
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    106%
  • Radeon HD 5970
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

The GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon HD 5970
GPU NameGM206 ()vsHemlock (Hemlock XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders1024vs1600
Compute Units8vs20
Core clock935 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon HD 5970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon HD 5970
TDP0 wattsvs294 watts
Release Date1 Jan 2016vs18 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    29.92 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    59.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    1914.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    7890
  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410

Points (higher is better)