GeForce GTX 870M vs GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

GeForce GTX 870M Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 12 Mar 2014

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3 Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 1 Jan 2016

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Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 870M
100%
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
109%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 870M

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Around 9% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 870M		GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
GPU Name	GK104 (N15E-GT-A2)	vs	GM206 ()
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	294 mmÂ²	vs	228 mmÂ²
Transistors	3,540 million	vs	2,940 million
Shaders	1344	vs	1024
Compute Units	7	vs	8
Core clock	941 MHz	vs	935 MHz
ROPs	24	vs	32
TMUs	112	vs	64

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 870M		GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	192 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1250 MHz 5000 MHz effective	vs	1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective
Memory Size	3072 Mb	vs	4096 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 870M		GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
TDP	100 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	12 Mar 2014	vs	1 Jan 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 870M
26.35 GP/s
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
29.92 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 870M
105.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
59.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 870M
120.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 870M
2529.40 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
1914.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 870M
7200
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
7890

Points (higher is better)

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