GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GTX 965M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 965M
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 965M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    220%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 120% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders1024vs1280
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock924 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs64vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 1060
TDP0 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date9 Jan 2015vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M
    29.57 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 965M
    59.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 965M
    1892.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 965M
    7890
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380

Points (higher is better)