GeForce GTX 965M and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 965M
3903
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 965M
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16E-GS, N16E-GR
Neptune
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
May 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
950 / 1151 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
944 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,355 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
73.60
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-