NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +42%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

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

17.20 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Saturn

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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