GeForce GTX 860M SLI and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 860M SLI

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

-

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2014

March 2022

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1029 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x 1870 Million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

-

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

2x 128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

-

3.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

-

1.3

Optimus

+

-