NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
VS
AMD Radeon 540X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
VS
AMD Radeon 540X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

300
Place in performance rating
558
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GM206
Code name
Lexa
Laptop
Type
Laptop
5 January 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
12 August 2019 (2 years ago)
$1546
Price now
$421
1.32
Value for money
3.25
N16E-GS, N16E-GR
GPU code name
Lexa
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1024
Pipelines
512
944 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
1150 MHz
Boost Clock
1046 MHz
2,940 million
Transistor count
2,200 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
73.60
Texture fill rate
33.47
2,355 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
1024
CUDA cores
no data
1024
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
950 / 1151 MHz
Boost clock speed
1219 MHz
2,940 million
Number of transistors
2,200 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
no data
+
SLI options
no data
PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
2500 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
80 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
+
G-SYNC support
no data
+
HDMI
+
+
VGA аnalog display support
no data
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X is the additional functionality.

2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
Ansel
no data
+
GameStream
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
+
GameWorks
no data
+
BatteryBoost
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
+
DSR
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
Vulkan
+
6.4
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and AMD Radeon 540X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M or AMD Radeon 540X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
AMD Radeon 540X
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
AMD Radeon 540X
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 96.5 45.9 34.1 23.2 17.5 8.99
AMD Radeon 540X
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 126.6 64.6 34.2 25.3 16.1
AMD Radeon 540X
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
AMD Radeon 540X 41.1
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

11.39% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1024 vs 512)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of AMD Radeon 540X

Cheaper ($421 vs $1546)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More memory bandwidth (112.0 GB/s vs 80 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M or AMD Radeon 540X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M versus AMD Radeon 540X performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon 540X