NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

2077 points

255% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

214% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

260% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 860M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 860M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 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 860M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GTX 860M.