GeForce GTX 860M vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 760, which comes with clock speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 1583 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (278%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 760 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128256 (200%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (more or less 23%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 860M. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17568 (23%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (more or less 146%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 860M, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18608 (146%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.