AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - 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).

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 850 MHz
13347.6x more texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
8.7x more pipelines: 3072 vs 352
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11300 vs 1617
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 784 vs 458

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 March 2019 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed	1200 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines	3072 vs 352
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11300 vs 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	784 vs 458

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

125x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 12500 million
Around 53% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11300

1617

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

784

458

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G3D Mark	11300	1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	784	458
Geekbench - OpenCL	53445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	10411
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	10411

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega 10 PRO	Fermi
Code name	Greenland	GF100
GCN generation	GCN 5.0
Launch date	19 March 2019	25 May 2010
Place in performance rating	229	292
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	352
Pixel fill rate	83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12500 million	100 Watt
Floating-point performance		598.4 gflops
Transistor count		3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12 API
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	402.4 GB/s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)	1200 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI