Radeon 860M vs Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile
Aggregate performance score
We've compared RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile with Radeon 860M, including specs and performance data.
Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile outperforms 860M by a whopping 126% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 221 | 427 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 52.71 | 54.36 |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) |
| GPU code name | AD107 | Strix Point |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | Laptop |
| Release date | 26 February 2024 (1 year ago) | March 2025 (recently) |
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 | 2048 | 512 |
| Core clock speed | 1485 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2025 MHz | 3000 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 18,900 million | 34,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 129.6 | 96.00 |
| Floating-point processing power | 8.294 TFLOPS | 3.072 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 8 |
| TMUs | 64 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 16 | 8 |
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 size | medium sized | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 | GDDR6 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | - | + |
| Resizable BAR | + | - |
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 | Portable Device Dependent | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | - |
| DLSS | + | - |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 55−60
+120%
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−120%
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Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 24.71 | 10.92 |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 15 Watt |
Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 126.3% higher aggregate performance score.
Radeon 860M, on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.
The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 860M in performance tests.
Be aware that RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 860M is a mobile workstation one.
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