Radeon E9173 PCIe vs GeForce GTX 965M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking371not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameno dataLexa
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2015 (10 years ago)3 October 2017 (8 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 cores2048512
Core clock speed924 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data39.01
Floating-point processing powerno data1.248 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
L1 Cacheno data128 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2015 3 October 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

E9173 PCIe has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 965M SLI and Radeon E9173 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

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