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    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 965M

    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    GeForce GTX 965M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 9 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 965M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      178%
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 78% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 965M
    GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1280vs1024
    Compute Units10vs8
    Core clock1404 MHzvs924 MHz
    ROPs48vs32
    TMUs80vs64

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 965M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 965M
    TDP80 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs9 Jan 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      29.57 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      59.10 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      192.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      80.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      1892.40 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      14100
    • GeForce GTX 965M
      7890

    Points (higher is better)

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