GeForce GTX 860M SLI and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 860M SLI
Radeon RX 540X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
-
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
March 2018
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2x 1870 Million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
512
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
35.97
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (FL 11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-