NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2016
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
935 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
36.80 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
73.60 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.355 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206S
GM204
GPU Variant
N16E-GR-A1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
165W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,800
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.