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The AMD Radeon R7 M260 is a lower mid-range DirectX 11 graphics card for laptops. Tiled Rasterization, Shared Memory (up to Dual-Channel DDR4-2400)īattery Boost, GameStream, ShadowPlay, GPU Boost 2.AMD Radeon R7 M260 ► remove from comparison
AMD RADEON R7 M260 VS GTX 860M SERIES
The 800M series also supports Optimus to automatically switch between an integrated graphics card and the Nvidia GPU.ĭirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.4 Therefore, the 860M is best suited for 15-inch laptops or larger. The low-clocked Kepler version draws just slightly more power. The power consumption of the GeForce GTX 860M should be similar to the old GTX 765M (about 60 watts). Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported. GM107 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. However, very demanding games such as Crysis 3 or Battlefield 4 will require lower resolutions and/or details.ĭespite its considerably higher shader count, the Kepler version is about 10 percent slower, mainly due to the worse bandwidth efficiency. Similar to Fermi and Kepler, Maxwell / GM107 supports DirectX 11.2 with feature level 11.0 only.Īlthough the GTX 860M has much less memory bandwidth and computing power, it can compete with (or sometimes even beat) the old Kepler-based GeForce GTX 770M while drawing significantly less power. Many games of 2013/2014 (Tomb Raider or BioShock Infinite, etc.) can be played fluently in FullHD resolution and very high detail settings. The increased size can handle some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing the performance. Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. GM107 features 5 SMMs and thus 640 shader cores, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs (128-bit interface).Īnother optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache (GM107: 2 MB). The GTX 860M offers 640 shader units clocked at 1029 MHz (+ Boost) as well as 4 GB of GDDR5 memory (128 bit, 5000 MHz effective).Īlternatively, there is also a version based on the Kepler chip GK104, which has 1152 shader units clocked at 797 MHz.Ĭompared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M is an upper mid-range, DirectX 12-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2014. It is one of the first cards based on Nvidia's new Maxwell architecture (GM107 chip), but is still manufactured in 28 nm. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M ► remove from comparison Thanks to the 7 nm process and clever power-saving features, the power consumption is comparatively low (according to AMD), so the iGPU won't look out of place in a slimmer, lighter laptop. Less demanding games like Fifa 20 or Dirt Rally 2.0 should run in higher settings and 1920 x 1080. That means, only some demanding games of 2019 will run in lowest detail settings. The performance should be slightly lower than the older RX Vega 8 GPU (1 CU more, but lower clock speed). More information is available in our dedicated article about the Raven Ridge architecture. The Vega architecture offers some improvements over the Polaris generation and now supports DirectX 12 Feature Level 12_1. The GPU should benefit from fast dual-channel DDR4-3200 RAM (contrary to DDR4-2133 single-channel, which is also possible).
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The iGPU's performance depends on the TDP of an APU (15, 35, 45 W or cTDP), the clocks, the cooling, and the memory configuration). The GPU is based on the Vega architecture (5th generation GCN) and has 7 CUs (= 448 shaders) clocked at up to 1,800 MHz. It is used in the Ryzen 4000 and Ryzen 5000 mobile APUs. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 is an integrated GPU for notebooks.
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 ► remove from comparison