NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 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

621 points

6% slightly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1841 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.30 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11969 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7421 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14780 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14358 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

6454 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15314 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16269 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

915 MHz

1020 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

1085 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.3 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

27.44 Gigapixels/s

58% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

109.8 Gigatexels/s

152% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.63 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1344

110% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th 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

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 670 vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 860M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 860M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 860M over the GeForce GTX 670.