NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M: specs and benchmarks
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. 2 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 15.65 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
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
Transistor count
1,870 million
of 21100
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
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
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 860M.
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
+
SLI
+
GeForce Experience
+
FXAA
+
TXAA
+
Direct Compute
+
Adaptive VSync
+
Ansel
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 860M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
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
15.59
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
Passmark
1868
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
4340
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 (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
0.19
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)
low / 720p
104
medium / 768p
67
high / 1080p
30
ultra / 1080p
27
4k / 2160p
10
Deus Ex Mankind Divided (2016)
low / 720p
39
medium / 768p
26
high / 1080p
14
ultra / 1080p
7
Doom (2016)
low / 720p
56
medium / 768p
47
high / 1080p
29
ultra / 1080p
27
Far Cry Primal (2016)
low / 720p
59
medium / 1080p
29
high / 1080p
26
ultra / 1080p
18
4k / 2160p
8
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (2016)
low / 720p
92
medium / 768p
58
high / 1080p
25
ultra / 1080p
19
Overwatch (2016)
low / 720p
177
medium / 768p
117
high / 1080p
55
ultra / 1080p
31
4k / 2160p
17
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
low / 768p
57
medium / 768p
36
high / 1080p
22
ultra / 1080p
20
4k / 2160p
8
The Division (2016)
low / 720p
65
medium / 768p
47
high / 1080p
22
ultra / 1080p
16
Titanfall 2 (2016)
low / 720p
96
medium / 768p
68
high / 1080p
32
ultra / 1080p
29
4k / 2160p
10
XCOM 2 (2016)
low / 720p
67
medium / 1080p
25
high / 1080p
14
ultra / 1080p
6
Fallout 4 (2015)
low / 720p
69
medium / 768p
44
high / 1080p
25
ultra / 1080p
20
4k / 2160p
8
GTA V (2015)
low / 768p
117
medium / 768p
125
high / 1080p
36
ultra / 1080p
15
Just Cause 3 (2015)
low / 768p
62
medium / 768p
52
high / 1080p
32
ultra / 1080p
28
4k / 2160p
11
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
low / 768p
134
medium / 768p
86
high / 1080p
48
ultra / 1080p
29
4k / 2160p
14
The Witcher 3 (2015)
low / 768p
57
medium / 768p
36
high / 1080p
20
ultra / 1080p
12
Far Cry 4 (2014)
low / 768p
70
medium / 768p
59
high / 1080p
29
ultra / 1080p
23
Sims 4 (2014)
low / 768p
141
medium / 768p
77
high / 1080p
54
ultra / 1080p
47
Battlefield 4 (2013)
low / 768p
136
medium / 768p
102
high / 768p
73
ultra / 1080p
29
Crysis 3 (2013)
low / 768p
119
medium / 768p
76
high / 768p
50
ultra / 1080p
19
Dota 2 (2013)
low / 768p
119
medium / 768p
118
ultra / 1080p
86
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (2013)
medium / 768p
142
high / 768p
97
ultra / 1080p
52
Tomb Raider (2013)
low / 768p
307
medium / 768p
162
high / 768p
97
ultra / 1080p
45
X-Plane 10.25 (2013)
low / 768p
95
medium / 768p
47
high / 768p
27
ultra / 1080p
17
Diablo III (2012)
low / 768p
308
medium / 768p
222
high / 768p
189
ultra / 1080p
105
Dishonored (2012)
low / 768p
129
medium / 768p
128
high / 768p
129
ultra / 1080p
104
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
high / 768p
85
ultra / 1080p
50
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 860M performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 860M from AMD is Radeon R9 M390, which is slower by 4% and lower by 4 positions in our rating.
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