NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1001 points

71% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1804 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.61 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13861 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16496 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16483 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15820 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16599 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

944 MHz

1020 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1150 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

Identical

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36.8 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

73.6 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.36 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

60% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 860M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 965M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 860M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 860M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 860M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 965M is better than the GeForce GTX 860M.