NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +129%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

-

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Heathrow

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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