GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3 vs Radeon HD 8970M

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

Radeon HD 8970M Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 14 May 2013

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Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
109%
Radeon HD 8970M
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 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970M

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

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

Supports Mantle

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 965M Rev. 3		Radeon HD 8970M
GPU Name	GM206 ()	vs	Neptune (Neptune XT)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	228 mmÂ²	vs	212 mmÂ²
Transistors	2,940 million	vs	2,800 million
Shaders	1024	vs	1280
Compute Units	8	vs	20
Core clock	935 MHz	vs	850 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	32
TMUs	64	vs	80

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3		Radeon HD 8970M
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	256 bit
Memory Speed	1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective	vs	1200 MHz 4800 MHz effective
Memory Size	4096 Mb	vs	4096 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3		Radeon HD 8970M
TDP	0 watts	vs	100 watts
Release Date	1 Jan 2016	vs	14 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
29.92 GP/s
Radeon HD 8970M
28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
59.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 8970M
72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
80.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 8970M
153.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
1914.90 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8970M
2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
7890
Radeon HD 8970M
7190

Points (higher is better)

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