GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon R9 M385X
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon R9 M385X |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M385X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon R9 M385X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 () | vs | Strato (Strato XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 540 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon R9 M385X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon R9 M385X | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Jan 2015 | vs | 5 May 2015 |
GeForce GTX 965M
17.28 GP/s
Radeon R9 M385X
17.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
34.60 GT/s
Radeon R9 M385X
61.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
80.20 GB/s
Radeon R9 M385X
76.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
1105.90 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 M385X
1971.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better