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    GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 950M

    GeForce GTX 965M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 9 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 965M
    GeForce GTX 950M
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      178%
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M

    Around 78% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 950M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 965M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 965M

    The GeForce GTX 965M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950M
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders1024vs640
    Compute Units8vs5
    Core clock924 MHzvs993 MHz
    ROPs32vs16
    TMUs64vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 950M
    TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date9 Jan 2015vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      29.57 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      15.89 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      59.10 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      39.70 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      80.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      1892.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      1271.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      7890
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      4410

    Points (higher is better)

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