NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM vs AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM and AMD Radeon R3 Graphics videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

3.8x more core clock speed: 1020 MHz vs 267 MHz
Around 81% higher boost clock speed: 1085 MHz vs 600 MHz
9x more texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 640 vs 128
9x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 153.6 gflops

Core clock speed	1020 MHz vs 267 MHz
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 128
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops vs 153.6 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM	AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
PassMark - G3D Mark		304
PassMark - G2D Mark		95
Geekbench - OpenCL		1492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.343
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		106.771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.35
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		8.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		21.88
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1745

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM	AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM107	Beema
Launch date	5 February 2015	28 January 2015
Place in performance rating	not rated	1599
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz	600 MHz
Core clock speed	1020 MHz	267 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	128
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	930 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared