AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 931 MHz vs 384
2197.8x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4643 vs 2360

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	931 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4643 vs 2360

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

2.1x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 479 vs 405

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	479 vs 405

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

405

479

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4643

2360

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G2D Mark	405	479
PassMark - G3D Mark	4643	2360

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi
Code name	Polaris 22	GF104
Launch date	1 February 2018	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	252	254
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Compute performance	20
Core clock speed	931 MHz	384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1280	384
Pixel fill rate	32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel/s	36.8 billion / sec
Texture Units	65 Watt
Transistor count	5000 million	1,950 million
Floating-point performance		883.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	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	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)	1500 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI