The GPU is operating at a frequency of 797 MHz, which can be boosted up to 915 MHz, memory is running at 1250 MHz (5 Gbps effective). NVIDIA has paired 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 860M, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. It features 1152 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 16 ROPs.
#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M REVIEWS MAC#
Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition, which uses the same GPU but has all 1536 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 860M to reach the product's target shader count. The GK104 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 294 mm² and 3,540 million transistors. Even though it supports DirectX 12, the feature level is only 11_0, which can be problematic with newer DirectX 12 titles. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GK104 graphics processor, in its N15P-GX-A1 variant, the chip supports DirectX 12. You get some GeForce GTX 660M and GTX 770M results for comparison too.The GeForce GTX 860M was a mobile graphics chip by NVIDIA, launched on March 10th, 2014. See below for all the benchmark results, as revealed by the folks at NotebookReview. And in all honesty, it's not all that necessary. So while, physically, the chip has all the same endowments as the GM107 featured in the desktop GeForce GTX 750 Ti video adapter, it can't run at the same performance level. The graphics processing unit seems to run at 540 MHz, which might seem like little before you remember that this is a mobile GPU so it's supposed to be slower, because it needs to make do with a lower TDP (thermal design power). Fortunately, a GPU-Z screenshot was included, which reveals the 640 CUDA cores, 40 TMUs (texture mapping units), 16 ROPs (raster operating units), 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (5 GHz clock), and a memory interface of 192 bits. Fortunately, not by much.Īs for the specifications of the GTX 860M, they aren't revealed by the benchmark. The Extreme profile preset showed a score lower than for the GeForce GTX 770M though. That puts the 860M somewhere between the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti Boost and the AMD Radeon R7 260X. The test results in 3DMark 11 show that the score was of 5,339 points, which is a performance level above that of the GeForce GTX 770M. The new benchmark suggests that it will happen sooner rather than later though, and this will give people something to look forward to, if nothing else. So maybe new notebooks featuring the chips, 860M or some other, will appear in a week, maybe it will take two, or three, maybe two months.
#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M REVIEWS SERIES#
It's not really clear when the Maxwell-based mobile GeForce 800M series will come out. For Tegra K1 it was AnTuTu, for Maxwell GeForce GTX 860M is was the 3DMark 11 suite. Just a short time ago, the 64-Bit Dual-Core NVIDIA Tegra K1 Project Denver was benchmarked, and now the GeForce GTX 860M has followed suit.Īlthough the benchmarks used in each case are different. Or perhaps we should say that some of its products are thus. NVIDIA seems particularly prone towards premature benchmarks this week. Soon, though, the GeForce 800M series of mobile GPUs will be updated, and one of the chips has been benchmarked. The GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti graphics cards are the only two products currently up for sale that are based on the NVIDIA Maxwell graphics processing unit architecture.