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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M: specs and benchmarks
Price now
875$
Games supported
69%
- Interface MXM-B (3.0)
- Core clock speed 797+Boost or 1029+Boost
- Max video memory 4 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed Up to 2500 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2014
Performance
10.17
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 860M sales 12 March 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 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 MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
10.17%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 860M's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 402 | |
| Value for money | 0.80 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2018) | |
| GPU code name | N15P-GX | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 12 March 2014 (8 years ago) | |
| Current price | $875 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 860M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores | 640 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| CUDA cores | 1152 or 640 | |
| Core clock speed | 797 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 915 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Number of transistors | 1,870 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 43.40 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,389 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 | 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 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Standard memory configuration | GDDR5 | |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 2500 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Memory bandwidth | 80.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
| 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.
| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | + | |
| Optimus | + | |
| Ansel | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 860M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 860M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- GeekBench 5 OpenCL
- 3DMark Ice Storm GPU
- GeekBench 5 Vulkan
- GeekBench 5 CUDA
- Unigine Heaven 3.0
- Octane Render OctaneBench
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
- SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
- SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks
- SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
- SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
- SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
- SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
Unigine Heaven 3.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
Octane Render OctaneBench
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
Benchmark coverage: 2%
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 frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 91 | |
| Full HD | 37 | |
| 4K | 13 |
- Full HD
Low Preset - Full HD
Medium Preset - Full HD
High Preset - Full HD
Ultra Preset - 1440p
High Preset - 1440p
Ultra Preset - 4K
High Preset - 4K
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−11 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−11 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Metro Exodus | 10−11 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−11 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 20 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−11 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Metro Exodus | 10−11 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−11 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−11 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−11 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Metro Exodus | 10−11 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−11 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−11 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−11 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 10−11 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 860M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 860M from AMD is Radeon R9 M390X, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 860M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 860M according to our statistics.
38.6%
8.7%
7.3%
6.3%
4.6%
2.7%
2.6%
1.7%
1.6%
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