GeForce GTX 860M vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated593
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data7.65
Architectureno dataMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameno dataGM107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)13 January 2014 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores401152 or 640
Core clock speedno data797 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1085 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,870 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data43.40
Floating-point processing powerno data1.389 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data40
L1 Cacheno data320 KB
L2 Cacheno data2 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5x-8533GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Standard memory configurationno dataGDDR5
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speed8533 MHzUp to 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
eDP 1.2 signal supportno dataUp to 3840x2160
LVDS signal supportno dataUp to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display supportno dataUp to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportno dataUp to 3840x2160
HDMI-+
HDCP content protection-+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI-+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder-+
Optimus-+
Ansel-+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.5
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2026 13 January 2014

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 12 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and GeForce GTX 860M. We've got no test results to judge.

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