GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon HD 5970
Summary
GeForce GTX 965M
106%
Radeon HD 5970
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 6% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 5970 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 965M
The GeForce GTX 965M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1) | vs | Hemlock (Hemlock XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | vs | 1600 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 924 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 965M | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 294 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Jan 2015 | vs | 18 Nov 2009 |
GeForce GTX 965M
29.57 GP/s
Radeon HD 5970
46.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
59.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 5970
116.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
80.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 5970
256.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
1892.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5970
4640.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
7890
Radeon HD 5970
7410
Points (higher is better)