Knights Corner vs GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	Knights (2010)
GPU code name	GM107	Knights Corner
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 February 2015 (9 years ago)	no data

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	976
Core clock speed	1020 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,870 million	5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	43.40	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.389 gflops	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	40	32

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).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	no data
Width	MXM Module	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	N/A
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.0	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

22 nm

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