NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2016
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
935 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
153.6GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1024
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
36.80 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
73.60 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.355 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM206S
Neptune
GPU Variant
N16E-GR-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
Unknown
100W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7
5.1

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