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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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		6080
PassMark - G2D Mark		673
Geekbench - OpenCL		18642
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	504
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