GeForce GTX 965M SLI and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 965M SLI

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

-

Wimbledon XT

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2015

May 2012

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

950 MHz

-

Core clock speed

924 MHz

850 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

-

200 Watt

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

-

Memory bus width

128 Bit

2x 256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

4800 MHz

Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12_1

11.1

CUDA

+

-

Optimus

+

-