NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon R7 M270DX 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 940 MHz
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3821 vs 962
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 345 vs 233

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2015 vs 11 June 2014
Core clock speed	944 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	950 MHz vs 940 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3821 vs 962
PassMark - G2D Mark	345 vs 233

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3821

962

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

345

233

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
PassMark - G3D Mark	3821	962
PassMark - G2D Mark	345	233
Geekbench - OpenCL	14467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	720.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	57.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	223.296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1831

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM204	Topaz
Launch date	9 January 2015	11 June 2014
Place in performance rating	666	667
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz	940 MHz
Core clock speed	944 MHz	900 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,355 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024
Texture fill rate	73.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI