NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

1446 points

147% significantly 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

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

97% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1020 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1085 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

120.3 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

186% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

91% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

26% slightly 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

238th of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

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 970M vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 860M has a slightly 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 970M and the GeForce GTX 860M have an identical TDP. 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 970M over the GeForce GTX 860M.