Intel Arc Pro A50 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A50 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Intel Arc Pro A50

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A50

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
5.2x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 384
4087x more texture fill rate: 150.4 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 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 540 vs 479
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5224 vs 2360

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Aug 2022 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 384
Texture fill rate	150.4 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	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	540 vs 479
PassMark - G3D Mark	5224 vs 2360

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A50
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

540

479

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5224

2360

Name	Intel Arc Pro A50	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
PassMark - G2D Mark	540	479
PassMark - G3D Mark	5224	2360
Geekbench - OpenCL	33073

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc Pro A50	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Fermi
Code name	DG2-128	GF104
Launch date	8 Aug 2022	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	261	262
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2350 MHz
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	384
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,203 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.626 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.813 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	384
Pixel fill rate	75.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	150.4 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	4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
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	192.0 GB/s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI