GeForce GTX 870M vs 860M |
Released March, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M
- 941 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
7 Out of 10
by Trace-Hagan (May, 2013)The range is powered by Kepler from bottom to top and brings great performance to mobile platforms.
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Released January, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7 Out of 10
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 870M vs 860M among Laptop GPUs over 35W TDP
Gaming | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better PassMark score | 2,297 | vs | 1,719 | Around 35% better PassMark score | |||
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| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 23,989 | vs | 18,276.5 | More than 30% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 7,156 | vs | 4,902 | More than 45% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 105.4 GTexel/s | vs | 40.8 GTexel/s | More than 2.5x higher texture rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,529.4 GFLOPS | vs | 1,305.6 GFLOPS | Around 95% better floating-point performance | |||
| More memory | 3,072 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 50% more memory | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 120 GB/s | vs | 80.2 GB/s | Around 50% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 112 | vs | 40 | 72 more texture mapping units | |||
| Slightly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 25,112 | vs | 23,220.5 | Around 10% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Much higher crysis 3 framerate | 26.7 fps | vs | 18.75 fps | More than 40% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| More shading units | 1,344 | vs | 640 | 704 more shading units | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 26.35 GPixel/s | vs | 16.32 GPixel/s | More than 60% higher pixel rate | |||
| Better face detection score | 34.84 mPixels/s | vs | 22.83 mPixels/s | Around 55% better face detection score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 2,355 | vs | 1,593 | Around 50% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| More render output processors | 24 | vs | 16 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit | 50% wider memory bus | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 52.2 fps | vs | 41.57 fps | More than 25% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Higher metro: last light framerate | 34.4 | vs | 27.85 | Around 25% higher metro: last light framerate | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,020 MHz | vs | 941 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 105.24 fps | vs | 75 fps | More than 40% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,085 MHz | vs | 967 MHz | More than 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 75W | vs | 100W | 25% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 870M vs 860M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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