NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1150MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +80%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

-

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1024

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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