NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs AMD FirePro D300

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs AMD FirePro D300, 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

584 points
1% slightly better overall score
575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
16 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS
12 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11550 points
21631 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10627 points
19931 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11127 points
19685 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9592 points
19733 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s
162.6 GB/s
102% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
100% significantly lower TDP
150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.36 Gigapixels/s
27.2 Gigapixels/s
56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

43.4 Gigatexels/s
68 Gigatexels/s
56% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.11 TFLOPS
2.18 TFLOPS
3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
1280
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
80
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
32
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

312th of 586
314th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 860M vs FirePro D300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 860M GPU is faster than the FirePro D300 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the FirePro D300 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 860M over the FirePro D300.

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