GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs Arc A310

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking368not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.05no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameDG2-128GM204
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 October 2022 (2 years ago)9 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7681024
Core clock speed2000 MHz935 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate64.0073.60
Floating-point processing power3.072 TFLOPS2.355 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3264
Tensor Cores96no data
Ray Tracing Cores6no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8MXM-B (3.0)
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1937 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.0 GB/s80.19 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 9 January 2015
Chip lithography 6 nm 28 nm

Arc A310 has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Arc A310 and GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A310 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB is a notebook one.


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Intel Arc A310
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