NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated483
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data1.02
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code namePolarisN15P-GX
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (7 years old)12 March 2014 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 no data
Current price$577 (1.3x MSRP)$875
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores2304640
CUDA coresno data1152 or 640
Core clock speedno data797 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz915 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate155.143.40
Floating-point performance4,963 gflops1,389 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce GTX 860M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI optionsno data+

Memory

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 amount8 GB4 GB
Standard memory configurationno dataGDDR5
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHzUp to 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s80.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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
eDP 1.2 signal supportno dataUp to 3840x2160
LVDS signal supportno dataUp to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display supportno dataUp to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportno dataUp to 3840x2160
HDMIno data+
HDCP content protectionno data+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMIno data+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreamingno data+

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoderno data+
Optimusno data+
Anselno data+

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDAno data+

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 August 2016 12 March 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce GTX 860M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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