NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • 716x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 1020 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1085 MHz
  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 43.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
  • Around 74% better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 1,389 gflops
Core clock speed 1127 MHz vs 1020 MHz
Boost clock speed 1178 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Texture fill rate 72 billion / sec vs 43.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2,413 gflops vs 1,389 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
PassMark - G3D Mark 6084
PassMark - G2D Mark 673
Geekbench - OpenCL 18664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2284

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Maxwell 2.0
Code name GM107 GM206
Launch date 5 February 2015 22 January 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 505
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Price now $229.99
Value for money (0-100) 34.63

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1085 MHz 1178 MHz
Core clock speed 1020 MHz 1127 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops 2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 1024
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s 72 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 2,940 million
CUDA cores 1024

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI Internal
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pins
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
SLI options 2x

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s 112 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 7.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost

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