#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M TEST PRO#
#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M TEST PC#
#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M TEST SERIES#

If the games you want to play are not supported, I'd say get an iMac and then game on a PC laptop if you require gaming mobility. For instance, Portal 1 doesn't run well at least, it didn't a year and a half ago. Videocard Category: Mobile Other names: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M (Mobile) Videocard First Benchmarked: G3DMark/Price. My advice would be to do research, see if the games you want to play on it are supported, and then buy accordingly. Unfortunately, for MacBook Pros with discrete graphics, your only option is the high-end 15' with retina.

#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M TEST PRO#

The thing most people tend to forget about the machine you are considering buying is that it is a MacBook Pro WITH RETINA DISPLAY! As in, this is a 2880x1800 display and not the 1680x1050 or 1440x900 displays that you'd previously get in the now-defunct non-retina 15' MacBook Pros.ĭriving games through this display requires them to be optimized for it, otherwise they (a) won't work right, (b) will run slow as hell, or (c) both. StarCraft II, for instance, should play nicely as should Diablo III, WoW and Hearthstone.

GeForce GTX 800M SeriesĭirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.4īattery Boost, GameStream, ShadowPlay, GPU Boost 2.ANY game? No.

#NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860M TEST SERIES#

The 800M series also supports Optimus to automatically switch between an integrated graphics card and the Nvidia GPU. Therefore, the 860M is best suited for 15-inch laptops or larger. The low-clocked Kepler version draws just slightly more power. The power consumption of the GeForce GTX 860M should be similar to the old GTX 765M (about 60 watts). Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported. GM107 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. However, very demanding games such as Crysis 3 or Battlefield 4 will require lower resolutions and/or details.ĭespite its considerably higher shader count, the Kepler version is about 10 percent slower, mainly due to the worse bandwidth efficiency. We recommend using PCMark 10 for testing modern PCs. Similar to Fermi and Kepler, Maxwell / GM107 supports DirectX 11.2 with feature level 11.0 only.Īlthough the GTX 860M has much less memory bandwidth and computing power, it can compete with (or sometimes even beat) the old Kepler-based GeForce GTX 770M while drawing significantly less power. Many games of 2013/2014 (Tomb Raider or BioShock Infinite, etc.) can be played fluently in FullHD resolution and very high detail settings. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4700MQ Processor,MONSTER HUMA H3 This benchmark is no longer supported.

The increased size can handle some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing the performance. Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. GM107 features 5 SMMs and thus 640 shader cores, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs (128-bit interface).Īnother optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache (GM107: 2 MB). The GTX 860M offers 640 shader units clocked at 1029 MHz (+ Boost) as well as 4 GB of GDDR5 memory (128 bit, 5000 MHz effective).Īlternatively, there is also a version based on the Kepler chip GK104, which has 1152 shader units clocked at 797 MHz.Ĭompared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M is an upper mid-range, DirectX 12-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2014. It is one of the first cards based on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture (GM107 chip), but is still manufactured in 28 nm.

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