The feature set includes support for up to 4 active displays. Battlefield 4 or Thief) fluently in FullHD resolution and very high detail settings. The GPU has enough power to run demanding games of 2013/2014 (e.g. Therefore, the 870M is just slightly slower than the GTX 680MX and the Radeon R9 M290X. The chip can access up to 6 GB of GDDR5 memory (1250 MHz, 5000 MHz effective) connected via a 192-bit interface.Ĭompared to the old GeForce GTX 770M, the GTX 870M offers significantly more performance thanks to its higher clock rate and the additional shaders. In the GTX 870M, only seven blocks are active for a total of 1344 CUDA cores and 112 TMUs. The GK104 Kepler core offers eight shader blocks, called SMX, that are clocked at the same speed as the central core. The Kepler architecture is the successor to the Fermi architecture that first appeared in laptops with the GeForce 400M series. Similar to the GTX 880M, it is based on the 28 nm GK104 chip (Kepler architecture), but features less shader cores (1344 instead of 1536) as well as smaller and slower memory (6 GB GDDR5). The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M is a high-end DirectX 12-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2014. GeForce GTX 800M SeriesĭirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.4īattery Boost, GameStream, ShadowPlay, GPU Boost 2.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M ► remove from comparison
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The 800M series also supports Optimus to automatically switch between an integrated graphics card and the Nvidia GPU. Therefore, the 860M is best suited for 15-inch laptops or larger. The low-clocked Kepler version draws just slightly more power. The power consumption of the GeForce GTX 860M should be similar to the old GTX 765M (about 60 watts). Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported. GM107 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. However, very demanding games such as Crysis 3 or Battlefield 4 will require lower resolutions and/or details.ĭespite its considerably higher shader count, the Kepler version is about 10 percent slower, mainly due to the worse bandwidth efficiency. Similar to Fermi and Kepler, Maxwell / GM107 supports DirectX 11.2 with feature level 11.0 only.Īlthough the GTX 860M has much less memory bandwidth and computing power, it can compete with (or sometimes even beat) the old Kepler-based GeForce GTX 770M while drawing significantly less power. Many games of 2013/2014 (Tomb Raider or BioShock Infinite, etc.) can be played fluently in FullHD resolution and very high detail settings. The increased size can handle some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing the performance. Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. GM107 features 5 SMMs and thus 640 shader cores, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs (128-bit interface).Īnother optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache (GM107: 2 MB). The GTX 860M offers 640 shader units clocked at 1029 MHz (+ Boost) as well as 4 GB of GDDR5 memory (128 bit, 5000 MHz effective).Īlternatively, there is also a version based on the Kepler chip GK104, which has 1152 shader units clocked at 797 MHz.Ĭompared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M is an upper mid-range, DirectX 12-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2014. It is one of the first cards based on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture (GM107 chip), but is still manufactured in 28 nm.