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    GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon HD 8970M

    GeForce GTX 965M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 9 Jan 2015
    GeForce GTX 965M
    Radeon HD 8970M
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 14 May 2013
    Radeon HD 8970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      109%
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 9% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8970M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    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 965MRadeon HD 8970M
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GS-KAB-A1)vsNeptune (Neptune XT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs212 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs2,800 million
    Shaders1024vs1280
    Compute Units8vs20
    Core clock924 MHzvs850 MHz
    ROPs32vs32
    TMUs64vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 965MRadeon HD 8970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 965MRadeon HD 8970M
    TDP0 wattsvs100 watts
    Release Date9 Jan 2015vs14 May 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      29.57 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      28.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      59.10 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      72.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      80.20 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      153.60 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      1892.40 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      2304.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 965M
      7890
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      7190

    Points (higher is better)

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