AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 384
6045.7x more texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9464 vs 2360
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 796 vs 479

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 November 2018 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	1469 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9464 vs 2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	796 vs 479

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

124.4x better floating-point performance: 883.2 gflops vs 7.1 TFLOPs
Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 175 Watt

Floating-point performance	883.2 gflops vs 7.1 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9464

2360

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

796

479

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G3D Mark	9464	2360
PassMark - G2D Mark	796	479
Geekbench - OpenCL	46696
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4763

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi
Code name	Polaris 30	GF104
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date	15 November 2018	5 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	260	254
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1469 MHz	384
Floating-point performance	7.1 TFLOPs	883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	40 nm
Pixel fill rate	49.54 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s	36.8 billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	1,950 million
Pipelines		384
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI