AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 384
  • 11.7x more texture fill rate: 429.3 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
  • 10.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 384
  • 15.6x better floating-point performance: 13,738 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Launch date 8 August 2017 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed 1406 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines 4096 vs 384
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops vs 883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765
PassMark - G3D Mark 2360
PassMark - G2D Mark 479

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Fermi
Code name Vega 10 GF104
Launch date 8 August 2017 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 256 254
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1677 MHz
Core clock speed 1406 MHz 384
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops 883.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 4096 384
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s 36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB / s 96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI