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GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960M features a core clock speed of 1096 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 965M, which has core speeds of 944 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 965M 5650 points
GeForce GTX 960M 4350 points
Difference: 1300 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M 60 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M will be much (more or less 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 60416 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16576 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 965M is superior to the GeForce GTX 960M, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 30208 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12672 (72%)

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 960M GeForce GTX 965M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 January 5 2015
Code Name GM107 GM204
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1096 MHz 944 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 60 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43840 Mtexels/sec 60416 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17536 Mpixels/sec 30208 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 1024
Texture Mapping Units 40 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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