ATI Rage Fury MAXX vs GeForce GTX 860M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	516	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code name	N15P-GX	Rage 4
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	12 March 2014 (10 years ago)	1 October 1999 (24 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	640	no data
CUDA cores	1152 or 640	no data
Core clock speed	797 MHz	125 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	8 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	43.40	0.25
Floating-point processing power	1.389 gflops	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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	-

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	GDDR5	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 2500 MHz	143 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB/s	1.144 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160	no data
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200	no data
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536	no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP content protection	+	-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI	+	-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming	+	-

Supported technologies

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

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+	-
Optimus	+	-
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	6.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.5	1.2
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 March 2014	1 October 1999
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	250 nm

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