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GeForce GTX 965M

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Release date ≈ Q1 2016.

Average Bench: 24.1% (189th of 714)

Based on 3,080 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1427 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
Poor: 18%Average: 24.1% Great: 27%

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Very poor average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M averaged 75.9% 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) 30.7fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 26.4fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M is just 8.79%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 39.3fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 32.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 3,080 samples)
Rank 18924.1%
Min Avg Max
22.5 Lighting 30.7 34.1
30.3 Reflection 39.3 53.6
25.3 Parallax 32.1 37.6
25% 34 fps
Min Avg Max
23.7 MRender 25.3 26.9
22.1 Gravity 30.4 34.1
17.9 Splatting 26.4 29.8
22.4% 27.4 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
HP(103C 825B) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5176
25.9% Poor
Lighting 32.9
Reflection 36.7
Parallax 33.6
27% 34.4 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 33.1
Splatting 28.9
24% 29.4 fps
HP(103C 825B) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 30.0.14.7219
25.7% Poor
Lighting 32.9
Reflection 37.8
Parallax 33.6
27% 34.8 fps
MRender 25.3
Gravity 32.2
Splatting 28.5
24% 28.7 fps
Asus(1043 1190) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5161
24% Poor
Lighting 31.5
Reflection 35.4
Parallax 31.3
26% 32.7 fps
MRender 16.3
Gravity 31
Splatting 27.1
21% 24.8 fps
MSI(1462 116C) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5176
21.5% Poor
Lighting 26.5
Reflection 50.2
Parallax 31.7
22% 36.1 fps
MRender 26.8
Gravity 27.4
Splatting 24.6
21% 26.3 fps
Microsoft(1414 0008) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.3129
19.8% Very poor
Lighting 24.9
Reflection 33.1
Parallax 28.4
20% 28.8 fps
MRender 25.3
Gravity 23.9
Splatting 20.7
19% 23.3 fps
Microsoft(1414 0008) 2GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.3118
19.3% Very poor
Lighting 24
Reflection 32.7
Parallax 28.2
20% 28.3 fps
MRender 25.3
Gravity 23.7
Splatting 20.7
19% 23.2 fps
Asus(1043 1190) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5176
15.3% Very poor
Lighting 13.7
Reflection 37.4
Parallax 32.8
11% 28 fps
MRender 25.9
Gravity 31
Splatting 28.8
24% 28.6 fps
Acer(1025 103B) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7654
11.3% Very poor
Lighting 9.4
Reflection 37.6
Parallax 33.3
8% 26.8 fps
MRender 25.7
Gravity 10.7
Splatting 29
18% 21.8 fps
HP(103C 825B) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 31.0.15.5186
6.86% Terrible
Lighting 8.2
Reflection 19.6
Parallax 15.9
7% 14.6 fps
MRender 7.2
Gravity 8.5
Splatting 10.1
7% 8.6 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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HP(103C 8257) 25% 26% ± 1%
HP(103C 825B) 19% 25% ± 2%
Microsoft(1414 0008) 17% 20% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 0152) 6% 25% ± 3%
Device(1D05 1019) 5% 25% ± 2%
Asus(1043 11D0) 4% 21% ± 5%
MSI(1462 116B) 4% 26% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 1501) 2% 25% ± 3%
HP(103C 825C) 2% 26% ± 1%
Asus(1043 1190) 2% 22% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6400) 2% 24% ± 4%
Acer(1025 103B) 2% 25% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0707) 2% 25% ± 2%
HP(103C 820D) 1% 26% ± 0%
MSI(1462 115A) 1% 26% ± 1%
MSI(1462 116C) 1% 26% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7702) 1% 24% ± 1%
MSI(1462 115B) 1% 17% ± 6%
Clevo(1558 1701) 0% 26% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7502) 0% 24% ± 0%
HP(103C 820F) 0% 25% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 1702) 0% 26% ± 0%
Dell(1028 15CC) 0% 26% ± 0%
HP(103C 8258) 0% 19% ± 0%
HP(103C 80D5) 0% 25% ± 0%
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Gaming 22%
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Desktop 73%
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Workstation 19%
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System: HP OMEN by HP Laptop

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples1,722x
Core i7-8750HIntelBench 70%, 442,631 samples1,628x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples1,145x
GPU
GeForce GTX 965MNvidiaBench 24%, 3,080 samples1x
SSD
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 177%, 99,566 samples467x
MZNTY128HDHP-000H1 128GBSamsungBench 78%, 4,948 samples214x
MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1 256GBSamsungBench 174%, 20,171 samples187x
RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 71,691 samples340x
M471A1K43CB1-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 70%, 62,266 samples307x
M471A5244CB0-CRC 2x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 36,396 samples292x
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