AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
7x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
10.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 384
9.3x better floating-point performance: 8,192 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

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 5 January 2011
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 384
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 175 Watt
3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579
PassMark - G3D Mark		2360
PassMark - G2D Mark		479

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi
Code name	Fiji	GF104
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	263	265
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	4096	384
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 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)
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 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
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI