GeForce GTX 860M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 860M was the gaming-laptop workhorse of 2014 — the Maxwell chip that made mid-range gaming portables affordable and cool-running for the first time. The catalog has benchmarked it in 62 games at 1080p, with a single matched model surviving in the channel.

Where the GTX 860M sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 21.4 — 198th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, below the table's midpoint. The neighbors are an even split of modern integrated and period professional parts: the Radeon Graphics Compute Engine record (21.7), Arc B390 (21.7) and Apple M4 (22.1) above; the Quadro K5100M (21.4), Iris Pro P580 (21) and Radeon RX Vega 10 (21) below. A 2014 gaming chip now ranks with today's better integrated graphics — a dignified landing for silicon that was never flagship-tier to begin with.

What the chip brings

The Maxwell generation's efficiency story in miniature: 1152 shader cores on 28 nm, 4 GB of GDDR5, a 75 W envelope and roughly 1.4 TFLOPS — modest numbers that ran cool and quiet by the standards of a year that also shipped 100 W+ Kepler bricks. CUDA support, no ray tracing era features by definition. Public synthetics: PassMark 3097, Fire Strike 3904.

FPS in games at 1080p

For a 2014 chip the table holds up respectably in its own generation's terms. CS:GO and Overwatch run at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140 at the high preset, F1 2014 at 96, FIFA 17 at 95, Valorant at 75, Farming Simulator 17 at 72, Dirt Rally at 60, Dota 2 at 55, Alien: Isolation at 54 and Rainbow Six Siege at 48. The modern shelf is predictably closed: Fortnite at 45, Counter-Strike 2 at 35, Forza Horizon 4 at 30, The Witcher 3 at 20, Cyberpunk 2077 at 14, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 12, Metro Exodus at 14.

Laptops that carry it

Exactly one model name-matches: Lenovo's Y70-70, a 2014 17-inch gaming machine listed at $390 — touchscreen, big panel, single-survivor territory. Its medians read as period hardware: performance index 30, portability 5.8, mobility 6 — a desk laptop then and now.

Bottom line

The GTX 860M matters today as a benchmark record rather than a buying target: one matched listing at $390 is the entire channel presence. That price is the honest valuation — the chip ranks below modern integrated graphics, and the machine around it is a decade old. For the same money the catalog's compare pages show MX-class and newer-chassis alternatives that outperform it while drawing less power. Buy the Y70-70 for nostalgia or parts; buy anything else for gaming.