Review NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M Maxwell vs. Kepler

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The unequal duel. Nvidia offers two different versions of its latest high-end GPU GeForce GTX 860M. Besides a version based on the Maxwell architecture, there is also a GPU from the old Kepler generation. We compared the performance of the two DirectX 11 chips and found a winner.
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The Kepler GTX 860M does actually leave a good impression when you compare it with the last generation. Around 30% more performance than a GTX 765M certainly deserve credit.

However, the old chip has a hard time keeping up with the Maxwell version. Despite less shaders, the new architecture is around 10% faster.

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