GeForce GTX 860M OEM vs Radeon HD 8690M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking821not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameSunGM107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)5 February 2015 (9 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 cores320640
Core clock speed775 MHz1020 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHz1085 MHz
Number of transistors690 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate16.5043.40
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS1.389 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2040

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s80.19 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 5 February 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB

GTX 860M OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8690M and GeForce GTX 860M OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8690M
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