NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +458%

2.355 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

-

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

M88

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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