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GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

The GeForce GTX 965M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 944 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features GPU clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 21379 points
GeForce GTX 965M 5650 points
Difference: 15729 (278%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M 60 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 300 Watts
Difference: 240 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 965M overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 431452 (674%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 486%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M 60416 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 293376 (486%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M 30208 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 58240 (193%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 965M Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 5 2015 June 2017
Code Name GM204 Vega 10 XTX
Memory 2048 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 944 MHz 1382 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 1890 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 495452 MB/sec
Texel Rate 60416 Mtexels/sec 353792 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 30208 Mpixels/sec 88448 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 4096
Texture Mapping Units 64 256
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 965M

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