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GTX 965M

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Release date ≈ Q1 2015.

Average Bench: 23.5% (193rd of 713)

Based on 3,914 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 13D9 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Poor: 21%Average: 23.5% Great: 25%

Popular builds with this GPU

Very poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 965M averaged 76.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 30.5fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 23.8fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 965M is just 4.25%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 965M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 32.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 28.1fps

Average Bench

(Based on 3,914 samples)
Rank 19323.5%
Min Avg Max
27.1 Lighting 30.5 32.3
28.1 Reflection 32.4 43.1
24 Parallax 28.1 30.8
24.9% 30.3 fps
Min Avg Max
16.8 MRender 25 27.1
26.2 Gravity 28.1 29.4
21.6 Splatting 23.8 25.5
20.9% 25.7 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 171D) 2GB
CLim: 969 MHz, MLim: 1386 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 566.03
24.6% Poor
Lighting 31.5
Reflection 32.4
Parallax 29.3
26% 31.1 fps
MRender 28.2
Gravity 29.3
Splatting 25.5
22% 27.7 fps
Asus(1043 171D) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 552.22
24.4% Poor
Lighting 31.8
Reflection 31.9
Parallax 28.4
26% 30.7 fps
MRender 26.2
Gravity 28.5
Splatting 24.9
22% 26.5 fps
Asus(1043 171D) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 565.90
23.8% Poor
Lighting 30.6
Reflection 31.8
Parallax 28.6
25% 30.3 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 28.3
Splatting 25.1
22% 26.6 fps
Asus(1043 171D) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 516.40
23.5% Poor
Lighting 30.4
Reflection 31.3
Parallax 28
25% 29.9 fps
MRender 25.7
Gravity 27.9
Splatting 24.4
21% 26 fps
Asus(1043 171D) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.73
23% Poor
Lighting 29.2
Reflection 31.7
Parallax 28.3
24% 29.7 fps
MRender 25.8
Gravity 28.4
Splatting 24.8
21% 26.3 fps
Microsoft(1414 0020) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.4629
22.6% Poor
Lighting 29.1
Reflection 29.9
Parallax 26.8
24% 28.6 fps
MRender 24.5
Gravity 27.2
Splatting 23.8
20% 25.2 fps
Dell(1028 0708) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3153
22.6% Poor
Lighting 29.4
Reflection 43.4
Parallax 27
24% 33.3 fps
MRender 25.1
Gravity 25.5
Splatting 22.8
20% 24.5 fps
Microsoft(1414 0020) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 462.96
21.9% Poor
Lighting 28
Reflection 29.4
Parallax 25.7
23% 27.7 fps
MRender 22.9
Gravity 26.7
Splatting 23.8
20% 24.5 fps
Microsoft(1414 0020) 2GB
CLim: 949 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 462.96
20.9% Poor
Lighting 27.5
Reflection 13
Parallax 25.2
22% 21.9 fps
MRender 17.7
Gravity 25.1
Splatting 22.3
18% 21.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 171D) 50% 24% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0708) 15% 23% ± 1%
Microsoft(1414 0020) 12% 23% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1125) 7% 23% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0685) 4% 23% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1134) 3% 23% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1102) 2% 24% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1103) 2% 24% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6557) 1% 24% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7702) 1% 24% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 0376) 0% 24% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7502) 0% 23% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 2555) 0% 21% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6541) 0% 24% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7500) 0% 24% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 0% 22% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6780) 0% 23% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 1464) 0% 24% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7700) 0% 24% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3756) 0% 25% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 B456) 0% 25% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 A456) 0% 25% ± 0%
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Gaming 18%
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Desktop 67%
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Workstation 16%
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System: Asus G751JL

CPU
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples244x
Core i7-4750HQIntelBench 63%, 5,497 samples19x
Core i7-4850HQIntelBench 66%, 818 samples1x
GPU
GTX 965MNvidiaBench 24%, 3,914 samples265x
SSD
X300s Non-Secure 128GBSanDiskBench 75%, 1,499 samples12x
Micron_M600_MTFDDAK128MBF 128GBBench 82%, 465 samples10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples9x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 30,591 samples46x
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 1x8GBSamsungBench 28%, 44,908 samples41x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples13x
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 Comments

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USA-User
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Average (edit your comment) Add link

13 months ago.

This is what comes with the first Surface Book. It does work pretty well as a low end gaming GPU, you can even run select Xbox 360 games, but you aren't actually getting that much power out of it and it can suffer quite a bit when running modern PC games.

GBR-User
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5,898

Good

19 months ago.

I had my laptop for three years and this card was amazing for the price. I could even play Arma 3 at acceptable frames. Beast of a card back in the day.

DEU-User
Avatar level
5,865

Average

2 months ago.

Best budget card back then in 2016/2017. The 4gb version can still run any game until 2017, even the newer ones on medium graphics. Best price-performance card back in the day. I did never regret buying it.

CAN-User
Avatar level
5,080

Good

15 months ago.

its alright but desktop cards are way better

NLD-User
Avatar level
3,608

Good

4 years ago.

Runs Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 60 fps medium to high settings

PRT-User
Avatar level
2,726

Good

4 years ago.

Can run any game at 1080p medium/high with 60fps, more demanding titles will run at 40 or 50 fps if you don't lower the settings a bit. Great price performance.

OGLG
Avatar level
4

Poor

7 years ago.

it's slow, i have to play fallout 4 on low. i'm so glad i'm upgrading because this poop can barely run crap

JFleury8469
Avatar level
2

Good

6 years ago.

Decent performance per watt while staying relatively cool. Unfortunately will struggle with certain games at 1080p at much higher than Medium settings (depending on the game) you will need to adjust your in-game settings down to achieve a balance between a steady 60fps and eye candy.

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