NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon R9 270X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2016
Oct 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
935 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
36.80 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
73.60 GTexel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.355 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
168.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206S
Curacao
GPU Variant
N16E-GR-A1
Curacao XT(215-0848004)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
180W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
—
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,800
1,769
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.