NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI: specs and benchmarks

Summary

This is Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 34.62 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Gaming AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 965M SLI's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

Maxwell

Type

Laptop

Release date

n/d

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 965M SLI's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 965M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2048

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

924 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

950 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

2x 5200 Million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 965M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 965M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

2x 128 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Shared memory

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 965M SLI. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

Optimus

BatteryBoost

CUDA

SLI

GeForce Experience

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 965M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 (FL 12_1)

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 965M SLI. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

33.90

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

250259.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

51182.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

7815.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

10207.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

14428.00

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 965M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.02

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (2013)

high / 768p

145.00

ultra / 1080p

76.20

Tomb Raider (2013)

high / 768p

244.50

ultra / 1080p

117.60

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 965M SLI performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

115.37 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q

110.75 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

101.42 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI

97.95 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI

95.52 %

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

89.37 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 965M SLI from AMD is Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire, which is slower by 4% and lower by 7 positions in our rating.