NVIDIA GeForce 860M Laptop Maxwell GPU Benchmarks Appear

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/05/2014 06:40 PM | source: | 11 comment(s)

Currently the only two desktop product based on Nvidia's Maxwell are the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti. However the GeForce 800M series of mobile GPUs will obviously get Maxwell as well, and a 860M Laptop has been benchmarked. Results in 3DMark 11 show a score of a cool 5,339 points, which definitely above the previous model GeForce GTX 770M.

That places the 860M mpbile GPU say in-between a GeForce GTX 760 Ti Boost and perhaps a AMD Radeon R7 260X. The GTX 860M should be a 640 shader cores GPU with 40 TMUs (texture mapping units) and 16 ROPs (raster operating units). It will get 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (5.0 Gbps is tied to a 192 bits wide memory bus. From the looks of it the part is running 540 MHz.

The 860M should be pretty energy friendly alright, not bad huh ?

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#4778674 Posted on: 03/07/2014 07:21 PM

The performance is impressive given the specs of the chip. However it doesn't really seem like much of an improvement over the 770M, I expected the performance to be similar to the 780M. This is definitely a win for the manufacture and it probably runs cooler too but am I incorrect in thinking that a new mid level card should have the performance level of a last generation high end card?

Have a look at the 770M's average 3Dmark11 score here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-770M.88995.0.html

The 680M is faster than both the 770M and the 860M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M.72679.0.html

I own one too but my CPU is a little faster:

The significance of the gtx 860M isn't in the score but the tdp of 40~45 W when compared the tdp of the 770M , so the performance / tdp is much higher thus the gm204 should also show the same behavior since that will be a 20nm and maxwell , the 880MX or 885M. Also if you think about it your comparing a high end GPU to a low end GPU , the gtx 860 runs on a gm107

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