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    GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 970M

    GeForce GTX 965M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 9 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 965M
    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      124%

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970M

    Around 24% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 970M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

    The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 970M
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1024vs1280
    Compute Units8vs10
    Core clock924 MHzvs1038 MHz
    ROPs32vs48
    TMUs64vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 965MGeForce GTX 970M
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date9 Jan 2015vs7 Oct 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      29.57 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      59.10 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      80.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      1892.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      7890
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860

    Points (higher is better)

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