NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

320% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

267% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

372% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

214% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

91% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

100% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

312th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 860M.