GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking208not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.85no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTU106GM204
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date27 May 2019 (5 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 cores23041024
Core clock speed945 MHz935 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate198.773.60
Floating-point processing power6.359 TFLOPS2.355 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14464
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 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
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.55.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 9 January 2015
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm

RTX 3000 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile and GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile
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