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GTX 870M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 22.1% (196th of 714)

Based on 3,247 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1199 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
Poor: 17%Average: 22.1% Great: 24%

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Very poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 870M averaged 77.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 26fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 25.8fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 870M is just 7.22%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 870M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 26.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 34.6fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 3,247 samples)
Rank 19622.1%
Min Avg Max
18.5 Lighting 26 29.4
22.2 Reflection 26.4 41.2
28.4 Parallax 34.6 38.7
21.2% 29 fps
Min Avg Max
27.1 MRender 29.7 30.9
23.3 Gravity 33.2 37.4
21.4 Splatting 25.8 27.6
23.9% 29.6 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 157D) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.2531
23.9% Poor
Lighting 28.6
Reflection 25
Parallax 36.4
23% 30 fps
MRender 30.1
Gravity 36.5
Splatting 26.5
25% 31 fps
Asus(1043 157D) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.2531
23.2% Poor
Lighting 27.5
Reflection 23.8
Parallax 35.8
22% 29 fps
MRender 29.3
Gravity 35.9
Splatting 26.4
25% 30.5 fps
MSI(1462 111A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 967 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 425.31
22.9% Poor
Lighting 27.1
Reflection 23.5
Parallax 36.2
22% 28.9 fps
MRender 28.5
Gravity 35.9
Splatting 26.8
25% 30.4 fps
MSI(1462 1106) 3GB
CLim: 967 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.05
22.6% Poor
Lighting 26.6
Reflection 24.2
Parallax 35.5
22% 28.8 fps
MRender 29.8
Gravity 33.8
Splatting 26.9
24% 30.2 fps
MSI(1462 1106) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.2531
22.5% Poor
Lighting 26.8
Reflection 43.8
Parallax 36.2
22% 35.6 fps
MRender 32.3
Gravity 27.3
Splatting 27.8
24% 29.1 fps
MSI(1462 1106) 3GB
CLim: 967 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 425.31
19.7% Very poor
Lighting 22
Reflection 24.2
Parallax 32.2
18% 26.1 fps
MRender 29.8
Gravity 29
Splatting 26.7
23% 28.5 fps
MSI(1462 1106) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8205
18.5% Very poor
Lighting 19.8
Reflection 27.2
Parallax 25.7
16% 24.2 fps
MRender 29.6
Gravity 28.8
Splatting 26.5
23% 28.3 fps
MSI(1462 1106) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.2531
8.68% Terrible
Lighting 8.5
Reflection 15.7
Parallax 12.7
7% 12.3 fps
MRender 18.9
Gravity 11.3
Splatting 14.5
12% 14.9 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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MSI(1462 1106) 36% 22% ± 2%
Asus(1043 157D) 32% 23% ± 2%
MSI(1462 10FD) 6% 21% ± 3%
MSI(1462 1103) 6% 20% ± 2%
Device(1A58 6749) 6% 20% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 5281) 4% 21% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 7481) 2% 21% ± 3%
MSI(1462 111A) 1% 20% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 1456) 1% 23% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0551) 1% 21% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 0376) 1% 22% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 A552) 1% 24% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 1% 24% ± 0%
MSI(1462 AF18) 0% 23% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0550) 0% 23% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0580) 0% 22% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1102) 0% 18% ± 0%
HP(103C 176C) 0% 14% ± 0%
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Gaming 18%
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Desktop
Desktop 70%
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Workstation 16%
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System: Asus G750JS

CPU
Core i7-4700HQIntel  $370Bench 62%, 42,062 samples206x
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples114x
Core i7-4712HQIntelBench 61%, 5,396 samples1x
GPU
GTX 870MNvidiaBench 22%, 3,247 samples118x
SSD
mSATA SD5SE2256G1002E 256GBSanDiskBench 71%, 860 samples26x
X110 256GBSanDisk  $100Bench 79%, 4,989 samples16x
RBU-SC100S37128GD 128GBKingstonBench 58%, 1,846 samples9x
RAM
M471B1G73QH0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 52%, 22,647 samples79x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 51%, 18,309 samples26x
M471B5173QH0-YK0 2x4GBSamsungBench 48%, 30,873 samples16x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 57% - Above average Total price: $370

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