NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M: specs and benchmarks
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 860M sales 13 January 2014. This is Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 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 MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 15.05 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 860M's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Maxwell
Code name
GM107
Type
Laptop
Release date
13 January 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.
CUDA cores
1152 or 640
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
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
SLI options
+
Memory
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
Standard memory configuration
GDDR5
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 860M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
No outputs
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
+
GeForce Experience
+
FXAA
+
TXAA
+
Direct Compute
+
Adaptive VSync
+
Ansel
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 860M, sometimes including their particular versions.
Benchmark 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
15.05
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
215144
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
27961
3DMark Fire Strike Score
3661
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
3904
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
4902
3DMark Vantage Performance
19216
Unigine Heaven 3.0
50
SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks
12
SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
2
SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
17
SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
7
SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
23
SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
8.7
SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
23
SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
15
Passmark
3256
Octane Render OctaneBench
30
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 860M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
163 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 860M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 860M performance compared to its nearest competitors.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 860M from AMD is Radeon RX Vega M GL, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our rating.
