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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 860M sales 10 March 2014. This is Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 14.68 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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General info

Of GeForce GTX 860M's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

243

Architecture

Kepler

Code name

GK104

Type

Laptop

Release date

10 March 2014

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 860M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 860M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1152

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

CUDA cores

1152 or 640

Core clock speed

797 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

915 MHz

of 1750 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

3,540 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

87.84

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2,108 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 860M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

medium sized

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 860M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Standard memory configuration

GDDR5

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

Up to 2500 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

80.0 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 860M.

eDP 1.2 signal support

Up to 3840x2160

LVDS signal support

Up to 1920x1200

VGA аnalog display support

Up to 2048x1536

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

Up to 3840x2160

HDMI

HDCP content protection

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 860M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

Optimus

BatteryBoost

CUDA

SLI

GeForce Experience

FXAA

TXAA

Direct Compute

Adaptive VSync

Ansel

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 860M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0

OpenGL

4.5

OpenCL

1.1

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 860M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

14.68

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

215144.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

27960.50

3DMark Fire Strike Score

3661.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

3904.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

4902.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

19215.50

Unigine Heaven 3.0

49.50

Passmark

1824

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

4340

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrate

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 860M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

163 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 860M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

3.37

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)

low / 720p

104.00

medium / 768p

66.70

high / 1080p

30.00

ultra / 1080p

26.50

4k / 2160p

10.40

Deus Ex Mankind Divided (2016)

low / 720p

39.00

medium / 768p

25.50

high / 1080p

14.30

ultra / 1080p

6.60

Doom (2016)

low / 720p

56.40

medium / 768p

47.40

high / 1080p

28.70

ultra / 1080p

26.80

Far Cry Primal (2016)

low / 720p

59.00

medium / 1080p

29.00

high / 1080p

26.00

ultra / 1080p

18.00

4k / 2160p

8.00

Overwatch (2016)

low / 720p

177.00

medium / 768p

117.00

high / 1080p

54.80

ultra / 1080p

31.30

4k / 2160p

17.00

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)

low / 768p

57.00

medium / 768p

36.00

high / 1080p

22.00

ultra / 1080p

19.60

4k / 2160p

7.90

The Division (2016)

low / 720p

65.00

medium / 768p

46.90

high / 1080p

22.20

ultra / 1080p

15.70

Titanfall 2 (2016)

low / 720p

96.10

medium / 768p

68.40

high / 1080p

32.00

ultra / 1080p

29.40

4k / 2160p

9.60

XCOM 2 (2016)

low / 720p

66.60

medium / 1080p

24.60

high / 1080p

13.60

ultra / 1080p

6.00

Fallout 4 (2015)

low / 720p

69.30

medium / 768p

43.60

high / 1080p

24.50

ultra / 1080p

20.30

4k / 2160p

7.90

GTA V (2015)

low / 768p

117.10

medium / 768p

124.80

high / 1080p

36.40

ultra / 1080p

14.60

Just Cause 3 (2015)

low / 768p

61.70

medium / 768p

51.90

high / 1080p

31.70

ultra / 1080p

27.50

4k / 2160p

10.70

Rainbow Six Siege (2015)

low / 768p

134.40

medium / 768p

86.20

high / 1080p

47.50

ultra / 1080p

28.70

4k / 2160p

13.80

The Witcher 3 (2015)

low / 768p

57.30

medium / 768p

35.90

high / 1080p

19.90

ultra / 1080p

11.70

Far Cry 4 (2014)

low / 768p

70.40

medium / 768p

59.15

high / 1080p

29.15

ultra / 1080p

22.85

Sims 4 (2014)

low / 768p

141.15

medium / 768p

77.00

high / 1080p

54.35

ultra / 1080p

47.45

Battlefield 4 (2013)

low / 768p

136.15

medium / 768p

102.00

high / 768p

72.75

ultra / 1080p

28.85

Crysis 3 (2013)

low / 768p

118.80

medium / 768p

76.40

high / 768p

50.35

ultra / 1080p

18.75

Tomb Raider (2013)

low / 768p

307.35

medium / 768p

162.40

high / 768p

97.00

ultra / 1080p

44.55

X-Plane 10.25 (2013)

low / 768p

94.75

medium / 768p

46.75

high / 768p

26.90

ultra / 1080p

17.20

Diablo III (2012)

low / 768p

307.92

medium / 768p

221.67

high / 768p

189.10

ultra / 1080p

105.24

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

high / 768p

84.50

ultra / 1080p

49.60

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 860M performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

99.93 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI

99.8 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M SLI

98.98 %

NVIDIA Tesla C2050

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 860M from AMD is Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, which is slower by 2% and lower by 7 positions in our rating.