NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M vs ATI FirePro RG220

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M and ATI FirePro RG220 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 9.2x more texture fill rate: 36.8 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
  • 11x better floating-point performance: 883.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2360 vs 335
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2011 vs 1 May 2008
Texture fill rate 36.8 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 80
Floating-point performance 883.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2360 vs 335

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro RG220

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 384
  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 552 vs 479
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 552 vs 479

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
GPU 2: ATI FirePro RG220

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2360
335
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
479
552
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M ATI FirePro RG220
PassMark - G3D Mark 2360 335
PassMark - G2D Mark 479 552

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M ATI FirePro RG220

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF104 RV711
Launch date 5 January 2011 1 May 2008
Place in performance rating 263 261
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 384 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 883.2 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 80
Texture fill rate 36.8 billion / sec 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 242 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DMS-59
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 96.0 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI