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.

 

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 260 263
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