AMD Radeon R7 M265DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M265DX and NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R7 M265DX

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M265DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 499 vs 462

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2014 vs 1 November 2007
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	499 vs 462

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 138

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	175 vs 138

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M265DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

138

175

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

499

462

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M265DX	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Geekbench - OpenCL	15678
PassMark - G2D Mark	138	175
PassMark - G3D Mark	499	462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2485

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M265DX	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Jet	G92
Launch date	7 January 2014	1 November 2007
Place in performance rating	1157	1160
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	855 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Transistor count	1,040 million	754 million
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		240 gflops
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		65 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-HE
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0
SLI