GeForce GTX 860M SLI and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 860M SLI

HD Graphics 520

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)

GPU code name

-

Skylake GT2

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2014

September 2015

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x1

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1050 MHz

Core clock speed

1029 MHz

300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2x 1870 Million

189 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

24

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

25.20

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

2x 128 Bit

64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

System Shared

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

2.1

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

+

Optimus

+

-

Quick Sync

-

+