Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 965M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 965M
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 965M
3903
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 965M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
N16E-GS, N16E-GR
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
January 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
950 / 1151 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
944 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
-
2,355 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
80.00
73.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+