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.

 

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 262 263
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