GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3 vs Radeon R9 280

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Jan 2016
GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280
    124%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280

Around 24% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 280

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280

The Radeon R9 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon R9 280
GPU NameGM206 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1024vs1792
Compute Units8vs28
Core clock935 MHzvs827 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon R9 280
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3Radeon R9 280
TDP0 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date1 Jan 2016vs4 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    29.92 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    59.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    1914.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 3
    7890
  • Radeon R9 280
    9790

Points (higher is better)