AMD Radeon R7 M465 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M Comparison

# Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The only shared benchmark between these two mobile graphics processors is Geekbench OpenCL, and the results reveal a decisive NVIDIA advantage. The GeForce GTX 770M scores 8,552 points against the Radeon R7 M465's 5,841 points, producing a 46.4% delta in favor of the NVIDIA part. That is not a marginal gap; it is a substantial margin that places the GTX 770M in a different performance tier entirely.

To contextualize this single data point, consider what these scores mean within their respective peer groups. The GTX 770M's average benchmark score of 6,000 places it at the 35th percentile of all GPUs, and its nearest rivals are clustered remarkably close: the AMD Radeon RX 6400 scores 6,001 (0% delta), the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server scores 5,996 (0.1% behind), and the AMD FirePro W4100 lands at 5,987 (0.2% behind). This tight grouping suggests that the GTX 770M's aggregate performance is competitive with a surprisingly modern set of parts, despite its age.

The R7 M465, by contrast, averages 5,841 and sits at the 33rd percentile. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon R5 M435 at 5,859 (0.3% ahead of the M465), the Intel UHD Graphics 730 at 5,929 (1.5% ahead), and the AMD Radeon HD 8730M at 5,955 (1.9% ahead). The M465 is actually the weakest performer in its own nearest-rival cluster, trailing every comparable part except the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which scores 5,731 (1.9% behind the M465). This paints a picture of a GPU that is firmly at the bottom of its immediate competitive set.

The 46.4% OpenCL delta between the two contenders is far larger than the 0.3% to 1.9% fluctuations seen within their rival clusters. That separation is the headline finding: the GTX 770M does not merely beat the R7 M465; it outpaces it by nearly half again its score. For any workload leveraging OpenCL compute, the NVIDIA part is the clear choice, and the data suggests the gap would likely persist across other benchmark types given the underlying hardware differences.

Interestingly, the GTX 770M's average benchmark score of 6,000 is actually higher than its OpenCL-only result of 8,552 might suggest when combined with other tests, while the M465's average equals its lone OpenCL score of 5,841 — indicating the M465 has no other benchmark data to pull its average up or down. The NVIDIA part benefits from having two recorded benchmarks (Geekbench Metal at 3,448 and Geekbench OpenCL at 8,552), which together yield the 6,000 average. This means the GTX 770M's Metal performance is substantially lower than its OpenCL performance, a split that could matter for macOS or Metal-specific applications, though the M465 has no Metal score recorded for comparison.

# FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the only head-to-head benchmark available?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M wins decisively, scoring 8,552 in Geekbench OpenCL versus the AMD Radeon R7 M465's 5,841, a 46.4% advantage.

Q: How does each GPU compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The GTX 770M is essentially tied with the AMD Radeon RX 6400 (0% delta) and marginally ahead of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server (0.1%) and AMD FirePro W4100 (0.2%). The R7 M465 trails most of its rivals, sitting 0.3% behind the AMD Radeon R5 M435, 1.5% behind the Intel UHD Graphics 730, and 1.9% behind the AMD Radeon HD 8730M, while only beating the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti by 1.9%.

Q: What are the percentile rankings for these GPUs?

A: The GTX 770M sits at the 35th percentile of all GPUs, while the R7 M465 is at the 33rd percentile — a narrow two-percentile gap despite the large benchmark delta.

Q: Does the R7 M465 have any benchmark where it outperforms the GTX 770M?

A: No. The available data shows the GTX 770M winning the only shared test (Geekbench OpenCL) with 1 win and 0 losses. The M465 has no recorded benchmark victory over the NVIDIA part.

Q: How do the average benchmark scores compare?

A: The GTX 770M averages 6,000 across two benchmarks (Geekbench Metal at 3,448 and Geekbench OpenCL at 8,552), while the R7 M465 averages 5,841 from its single OpenCL result. The NVIDIA part holds a 159-point average advantage.

Q: What does the GTX 770M's Metal score of 3,448 imply?

A: The Metal score is significantly lower than its OpenCL score, suggesting the GTX 770M's compute performance varies by API. However, since the R7 M465 has no Metal benchmark recorded, a direct comparison on that API is impossible from the available data.

# The Verdict

The data points to one unambiguous conclusion: the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M is the superior mobile GPU for OpenCL compute workloads. Its 46.4% benchmark advantage over the AMD Radeon R7 M465 is not a subtle edge — it is a generational gap in practical performance. The GTX 770M's higher percentile ranking (35th versus 33rd), higher average score (6,000 versus 5,841), and clean sweep of the head-to-head comparison all reinforce this verdict.

Buyers or system builders choosing between these two parts should select the GTX 770M if compute performance matters at all. The NVIDIA part offers more than double the shading units (960 versus 384), substantially higher texture and pixel rates, and nearly three times the memory bandwidth. The R7 M465's only advantages are a higher boost clock (1,024 MHz versus 797 MHz) and a more modern architecture generation — neither of which translates into a benchmark win.

However, context matters. The GTX 770M is an end-of-life product from 2013, while the R7 M465 is also end-of-life but from 2016. Both are legacy parts, and the data shows the GTX 770M remains competitive with much newer GPUs like the Radeon RX 6400 (0% delta), whereas the R7 M465 struggles against even modest integrated graphics like the Intel UHD Graphics 730. For anyone seeking maximum compute performance in a legacy mobile platform, the GTX 770M is the data-backed choice.

# Specification Differences

The two GPUs diverge sharply across nearly every hardware specification. The GTX 770M uses the GK106 chip with 2,540 million transistors on a 221 mm² die (11.5M transistors per mm²), while the R7 M465 uses the Topaz chip with 1,550 million transistors on a 125 mm² die (12.4M per mm²). The NVIDIA part has 960 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, and 24 ROPs, compared to the AMD's 384 shading units, 24 TMUs, and just 8 ROPs.

Memory configurations differ fundamentally: the GTX 770M offers 3 GB of GDDR5 on a 192-bit bus with 96.19 GB/s bandwidth, while the R7 M465 provides 2 GB of GDDR5 on a 64-bit bus with only 36.00 GB/s bandwidth. Clock speeds tell a different story — the AMD part runs at 730 MHz base and boosts to 1,024 MHz, while the NVIDIA part runs at 706 MHz base and boosts to 797 MHz. Memory clocks also favor AMD: 1,125 MHz (4.5 Gbps effective) versus 1,002 MHz (4 Gbps effective).

Pixel and texture rates follow the raw hardware counts: the GTX 770M delivers 15.94 GPixel/s and 63.76 GTexel/s, versus the R7 M465's 8.192 GPixel/s and 24.58 GTexel/s. Floating-point performance is similarly lopsided — the NVIDIA part achieves 1.530 TFLOPS FP32, while the AMD part manages 786.4 GFLOPS FP32 (and matches that for FP16 at 1:1 ratio, a feature the GTX 770M does not list). Power and interface specs also differ: the GTX 770M is rated at 75 W TDP with an MXM-B (3.0) interface, while the R7 M465 has no TDP listed and uses PCIe 3.0 x8.

# Architecture Differences

Architecturally, these GPUs represent two different design philosophies from different eras. The GTX 770M is built on NVIDIA's Kepler architecture (chip GK106, generation GeForce 700M), while the R7 M465 uses AMD's GCN 3.0 architecture (chip Topaz, generation Gem System R7 M400). Both are fabricated on TSMC's 28 nm process, but the transistor densities differ slightly — the AMD part packs 12.4M transistors per mm² versus NVIDIA's 11.5M per mm², indicating a more compact design despite having fewer total transistors.

The API support reveals another generational split. The GTX 770M supports DirectX 12 (11_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2.175. The R7 M465 supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2.170. The AMD part's DirectX 12 (12_0) feature level is technically higher than NVIDIA's 11_0, which could matter for certain modern titles, though the benchmark data does not include any DirectX tests to quantify this.

Shading architecture differs fundamentally: the GTX 770M's Kepler design relies on 960 CUDA cores organized into streaming multiprocessors, while the R7 M465's GCN 3.0 uses 384 stream processors organized in compute units. The GCN design also supports FP16 at a 1:1 ratio with FP32 (786.4 GFLOPS each), whereas the GTX 770M lists no FP16 capability — a potentially significant omission for compute workloads using half-precision arithmetic.

The GTX 770M's predecessor is the GeForce 600M and its successor is the GeForce 800M, while the R7 M465's predecessor is the Solar System series and its successor is Polaris Mobile. Both are end-of-life, but the NVIDIA part launched in 2013 and the AMD part in 2016. The NVIDIA GPU uses an MXM-B (3.0) bus interface and has no power connectors, while the AMD part connects via PCIe 3.0 x8 with no power connector information listed.

# Where Each One Wins

The benchmark data is unambiguous: the GTX 770M wins the only head-to-head test, and it wins by a wide margin. For any OpenCL compute workload — whether that be GPU-accelerated video encoding, physics simulations, or machine learning inference — the data shows the NVIDIA part delivering 46.4% higher performance. The GTX 770M also wins on raw throughput metrics: its 63.76 GTexel/s texture rate is 2.6 times the R7 M465's 24.58 GTexel/s, and its 15.94 GPixel/s pixel rate is nearly double the AMD part's 8.192 GPixel/s.

The R7 M465's theoretical wins are narrower and less impactful. It has a higher boost clock (1,024 MHz versus 797 MHz), which could give it an edge in lightly-threaded or latency-sensitive tasks that do not scale with shading unit count. Its FP16 capability at 786.4 GFLOPS matches its FP32 output, while the GTX 770M has no listed FP16 performance — so for half-precision workloads, the AMD part may actually be the better choice, though no benchmark data exists to confirm this. The R7 M465 also supports DirectX 12 (12_0) versus the GTX 770M's DirectX 12 (11_0), which could theoretically enable more advanced rendering features in DX12 titles.

In practical terms, the GTX 770M should be the pick for any task that scales with shading units, memory bandwidth, or raw compute throughput. The R7 M465 might hold its own in scenarios where its higher boost clock and FP16 support are relevant, but the available data does not contain a single benchmark where it beats the NVIDIA part. For gaming, the GTX 770M's 3 GB of VRAM and 96.19 GB/s bandwidth provide a substantially larger memory pipeline than the R7 M465's 2 GB and 36.00 GB/s, suggesting better high-resolution texture performance. The verdict from the numbers is clear: the GTX 770M dominates, and the R7 M465's advantages remain theoretical rather than demonstrated.