Intel Arc A380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A380 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Intel Arc A380

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A380

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 5 month(s) later
5.2x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 384
3565.2x more texture fill rate: 131.2 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 40 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 479
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6216 vs 2360

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 Jun 2022 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate	131.2 GTexel/s vs 36.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	609 vs 479
PassMark - G3D Mark	6216 vs 2360

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A380
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

609

479

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6216

2360

Name	Intel Arc A380	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G2D Mark	609	479
PassMark - G3D Mark	6216	2360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4284
Geekbench - OpenCL	36911

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A380	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Fermi
Code name	DG2-128	GF104
Launch date	14 Jun 2022	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	255	253
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	384
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	40 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.397 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.198 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	384
Pixel fill rate	65.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	131.2 GTexel/s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million	1,950 million
Floating-point performance		883.2 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	42 mm, 1.7 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	222 mm, 8.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Width	114 mm, 4.5 inches
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	3.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	186.0 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	96 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1937 MHz, 15.5 Gbps effective	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI