GeForce GTX 860M vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this model. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 860M overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be quite a bit (more or less 23%) more effective at anisotropic 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 much (approximately 146%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 860M, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.