NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M and NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
169.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3047 vs 18
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 194

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2014 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed	797 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3047 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 194

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3047

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

194

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3047	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	194
Geekbench - OpenCL	10305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1151

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	NVIDIA GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK104	MCP67M
Launch date	10 March 2014	16 November 2007
Place in performance rating	904	905
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	915 MHz
Core clock speed	797 MHz	425 MHz
CUDA cores	1152 or 640
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA