GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking422not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.53no data
Architectureno dataMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameno dataGM204
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 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 cores15361024
Core clock speedno data935 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data73.60
Floating-point processing powerno data2.355 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64

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).

Interfaceno dataMXM-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 typeLPDDR5xGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speed8448 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80.19 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 4 nm 28 nm

Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS has a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS and GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB
GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB

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