GeForce GTX 965M SLI and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 965M SLI

Radeon HD 8970M

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

-

Neptune

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2015

May 2013

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

950 MHz

900 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

2,304 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

-

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

72.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

153.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

Optimus

+

-