Polaris 20 vs GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGM107Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 February 2015 (9 years ago)no data
Current price$150 $17.99

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6402304
Core clock speed1020 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1085 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate43.40no data
Floating-point performance1,389 gflopsno data

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
WidthMXM Moduleno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed5012 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

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