NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs ATI Radeon E4690

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and ATI Radeon E4690 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 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 3.8x more texture fill rate: 73.6 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 320
  • 6.1x better floating-point performance: 2,355 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 79% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 9.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3775 vs 405
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3337 vs 3302
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3337 vs 3302
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 January 2015 vs 1 June 2009
Core clock speed 944 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 320
Floating-point performance 2,355 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3775 vs 405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337 vs 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 vs 3302

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690

  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 347 vs 340
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 347 vs 340

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E4690

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3775
405
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
340
347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
3302
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M ATI Radeon E4690
PassMark - G3D Mark 3775 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 340 347
Geekbench - OpenCL 14701
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 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 3302
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1831

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M ATI Radeon E4690

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 RV730
Launch date 9 January 2015 1 June 2009
Place in performance rating 702 715
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
Core clock speed 944 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1024
Floating-point performance 2,355 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1024 320
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 514 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 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) MXM-II
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 80 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
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