NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and AMD Radeon R9 M485X 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 723 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Around 56% lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 250 Watt
2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14151 vs 3661
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 750 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2019 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	14151 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	750 vs 417

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Around 7% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1920
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Pipelines	2048 vs 1920
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14151

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

750

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	14151	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	750	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	70668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	220.337
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3131.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1141.283
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7489

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU106	Amethyst
Launch date	7 January 2019	15 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$349
Place in performance rating	150	272
Price now	$349.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	62.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1680 MHz
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1920	2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	10,800 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Texture fill rate		92.54 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	No outputs
DisplayPort count	2
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		160.0 GB / s
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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