NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon R9 M385

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M AMD Radeon R9 M385

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1150MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M385 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +31%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Radeon R9 M385

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Strato

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Strato 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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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