GeForce GTX 860M OEM vs Radeon R9 M470X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking495not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameEmeraldGM107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 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 cores896640
Core clock speed1000 MHz1020 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1085 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate61.6043.40
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPS1.389 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs5640

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-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 amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 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 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 5 February 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB

R9 M470X has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M470X and GeForce GTX 860M OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 M470X
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