NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 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 950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 1,389 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 5 February 2015
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops vs 1,389 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1020 MHz vs 914 MHz
2x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1000 or 2500 MHz

Core clock speed	1020 MHz vs 914 MHz
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1000 or 2500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	2577
PassMark - G2D Mark	217
Geekbench - OpenCL	9744
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell
Code name	GM107	GM107
Launch date	13 March 2015	5 February 2015
Place in performance rating	797	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	1085 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	1020 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops	1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	640
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s	43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB / s	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI