NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M videocard review

GeForce GTX 485M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 5 January 2011. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Fermi microarchitecture codenamed GF104.

Core clock speed - 384. Texture fill rate - 36.8 billion / sec. Pipelines - 384. Floating-point performance - 883.2 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 1,950 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 100 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 2 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1500 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 96.0 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38718

2360

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1306

479

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	479

Games performance

1. StarCraft 2 (2010)
2. Metro 2033 (2010)
3. GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

4. Left 4 Dead (2008)
5. Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
6. Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768	220.90
Medium, 1360x768	85.90
High, 1360x768	85.20
Ultra, 1920x1080	56.50

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	116.20
Medium, 1360x768	80.80
High, 1600x900	48.12
Ultra, 1920x1080	16.10

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

Low, 800x600	65.50
Medium, 1024x768	63.90
High, 1280x1024	62.00

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480	184.30
High, 1024x768	121.60

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	81.70
High, 1024x768	78.90
Ultra, 1920x1080	59.90

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	135.60
Medium, 1024x768	88.10
High, 1024x768	74.20
Ultra, 1920x1080	22.56

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Fermi
Code name	GF104
Launch date	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	254
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	384
Floating-point performance	883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI