AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RX 5500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
4.3x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 384
4.4x more texture fill rate: 162.36 GT/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8803 vs 2360
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 479

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	1670 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate	162.36 GT/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8803 vs 2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 479

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8803

2360

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

766

479

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G3D Mark	8803	2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	766	479
Geekbench - OpenCL	42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4813

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	Fermi
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	257	254
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Code name		GF104
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1670 MHz	384
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	59 GP/s
Stream Processors	1408
Texture fill rate	162.36 GT/s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,950 million
Floating-point performance		883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		40 nm
Pipelines		384
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5