NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 965M SLI sales 5 January 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 17.17% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 965M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	268
Value for money	28.10
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	5 January 2015 (8 years old)
Current price	$149	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 965M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	924 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	950 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	2x 5200 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)

Size and compatibility

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
SLI options	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 965M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x 4 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
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.

Optimus

API support

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

DirectX	12_1
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 965M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 965M SLI 17.17

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GTX 965M SLI 14428

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 965M SLI 7815

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 965M SLI 10207

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GTX 965M SLI 51182

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GTX 965M SLI 250259

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 965M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

27−30

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30
Battlefield 5	55−60
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	27−30
Far Cry 5	45−50
Far Cry New Dawn	45−50
Forza Horizon 4	55−60
Hitman 3	50−55
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	27−30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30
Battlefield 5	55−60
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	27−30
Far Cry 5	45−50
Far Cry New Dawn	45−50
Forza Horizon 4	55−60
Hitman 3	50−55
Horizon Zero Dawn	35−40
Metro Exodus	24−27
Red Dead Redemption 2	27−30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30
Battlefield 5	55−60
Cyberpunk 2077	27−30
Far Cry 5	45−50
Far Cry New Dawn	45−50
Forza Horizon 4	55−60
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	24−27
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24
Metro Exodus	14−16
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	21−24

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16
Battlefield 5	35−40
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Hitman 3	16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12
Metro Exodus	9−10
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Battlefield 5	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Far Cry 5	14−16
Far Cry New Dawn	16−18
Forza Horizon 4	21−24
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 965M SLI performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 106.7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile 106.46

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 103.96

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI 100

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH 98.43

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI 96.1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 95.69

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 965M SLI is Radeon RX Vega M GH, which is slower by 2% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.