AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 390X 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
5x more texture fill rate: 184.8 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
7.3x more pipelines: 2816 vs 384
6.7x better floating-point performance: 5,914 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9395 vs 2360
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 821 vs 479

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 June 2015 vs 5 January 2011
Texture fill rate	184.8 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	2816 vs 384
Floating-point performance	5,914 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9395 vs 2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	821 vs 479

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 390X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9395

2360

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

821

479

Name	AMD Radeon R9 390X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G3D Mark	9395	2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	821	479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 390X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Fermi
Code name	Grenada	GF104
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	18 June 2015	5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$429
Place in performance rating	268	264
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Compute units	44
Floating-point performance	5,914 gflops	883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2816	384
Stream Processors	2816
Texture fill rate	184.8 GTexel / s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	275 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	6,200 million	1,950 million
Core clock speed		384
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	275 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	384 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI