NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 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 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 30.7x more texture fill rate: 73.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 79% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 45x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3827 vs 85
  • Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 344 vs 241
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 January 2015 vs 23 August 2006
Core clock speed 944 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3827 vs 85
PassMark - G2D Mark 344 vs 241

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 44 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 44 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3827
85
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
344
241
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M ATI Radeon X1650 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 3827 85
PassMark - G2D Mark 344 241
Geekbench - OpenCL 14496
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 ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM204 RV535
Launch date 9 January 2015 23 August 2006
Place in performance rating 718 721
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
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1024
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 44 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 330 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 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