AMD Radeon R9 Fury vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Fury 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, 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 - 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 Fury

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
6.1x more texture fill rate: 224.0 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
9.3x more pipelines: 3584 vs 384
8.1x better floating-point performance: 7,168 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9556 vs 2360
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 789 vs 479

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 July 2015 vs 5 January 2011
Texture fill rate	224.0 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	3584 vs 384
Floating-point performance	7,168 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9556 vs 2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	789 vs 479

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 275 Watt
3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9556

2360

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

789

479

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Fury	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G3D Mark	9556	2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	789	479
Geekbench - OpenCL	53258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	141.671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3600.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	133.144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	791.572
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4739

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Fury	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi
Code name	Fiji	GF104
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	10 July 2015	5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$549
Place in performance rating	266	264
Price now	$399.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	35.98
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	56
Floating-point performance	7,168 gflops	883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	3584	384
Stream Processors	3584
Texture fill rate	224.0 GTexel / s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	275 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	1,950 million
Core clock speed		384
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x 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)
Supplementary power connectors	2x 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	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI