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    GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 950

    GeForce GTX 965M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 9 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 965M
    GeForce GTX 950
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 20 Aug 2015
    GeForce GTX 950

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 950
      107%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 950

    Around 7% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 950

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

    The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs228 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs2,940 million
    Shaders1024vs768
    Compute Units8vs6
    Core clock924 MHzvs1024 MHz
    ROPs32vs32
    TMUs64vs48

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1653 MHz
    6612 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950
    TDP0 wattsvs90 watts
    Release Date9 Jan 2015vs20 Aug 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      29.57 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950
      32.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      59.10 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950
      49.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      80.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950
      105.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      1892.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950
      1572.90 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      7890
    • GeForce GTX 950
      8490

    Points (higher is better)

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