GeForce GTX 860M SLI and GeForce GT 525M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 860M SLI
GeForce GT 525M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
-
N12P-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2x 1870 Million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
96
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
9.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2x 4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
2x 128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12 (FL 11_0)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
+
+