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    GeForce GTX 860M vs GeForce GTX 970M

    GeForce GTX 860M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Jan 2014
    GeForce GTX 860M
    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      195%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 860M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

    Around 95% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

    The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 860MGeForce GTX 970M
    GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GX-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders640vs1280
    Compute Units5vs10
    Core clock1020 MHzvs1038 MHz
    ROPs16vs48
    TMUs40vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 860MGeForce GTX 970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 860MGeForce GTX 970M
    TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date13 Jan 2014vs7 Oct 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      16.32 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      40.80 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      80.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      1305.60 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 860M
      5040
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860

    Points (higher is better)

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