NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1150MHz vs 975MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +17%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 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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