NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD FirePro D500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD FirePro D500 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 30% higher core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 73.6 GTexel / s vs 69.6 GTexel / s
• Around 6% better floating-point performance: 2,355 gflops vs 2,227 gflops
• 5.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 274 Watt
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 67.59 vs 49.776

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro D500

• Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
• 2x more memory clock speed: 5080 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• Around 24% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17885 vs 14467
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1063.081 vs 720.592
• Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.568 vs 3.903
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 65.789 vs 57.947
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6020 vs 5783
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3685 vs 2566
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6020 vs 5783
• Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3685 vs 2566

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: AMD FirePro D500

Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	14467 17885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	67.59 49.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	720.592 1063.081
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.903 4.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	57.947 65.789
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5783 6020
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2566 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3337 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5783 6020
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2566 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3337 3349

Compare specifications (specs)