GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 860M

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
GeForce GTX 860M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Jan 2014
GeForce GTX 860M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    370%
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 270% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 860M

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 860M
GPU NameGP104 ()vsGM107 (N15P-GX-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders2048vs640
Compute Units16vs5
Core clock1442 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs128vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 860M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce GTX 860M
TDP120 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs13 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    92.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    184.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    40.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    5906.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    1305.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    18650
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    5040

Points (higher is better)

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