GeForce GT 1010 vs Radeon 860M
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Radeon 860M with GeForce GT 1010, including specs and performance data.
860M outperforms GT 1010 by a whopping 280% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 427 | 774 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 54.36 | 7.14 |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) | Pascal (2016−2021) |
| GPU code name | Strix Point | GP108 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | March 2025 (recently) | 13 January 2021 (4 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | 256 |
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | 1228 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3000 MHz | 1468 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 34,000 million | 1,800 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 30 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 96.00 | 23.49 |
| Floating-point processing power | 3.072 TFLOPS | 0.7516 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 16 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 8 | no 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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 147 mm |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 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 | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1253 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 40.1 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
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 | 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI |
| HDMI | - | + |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | - | 6.1 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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 | 25
+317%
| 6−7
−317%
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Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 10.92 | 2.87 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 30 Watt |
Radeon 860M has a 280.5% higher aggregate performance score, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.
The Radeon 860M is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 1010 in performance tests.
Be aware that Radeon 860M is a notebook card while GeForce GT 1010 is a desktop one.
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