NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 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 2070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 885 MHz vs 723 MHz
Around 13% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 250 Watt
2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11745 vs 3661
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 483 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	885 MHz vs 723 MHz
Pipelines	2304 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11745 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	483 vs 417

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11745

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

483

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	11745	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	483	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	78123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1001.496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6841

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU106	Amethyst
Launch date	29 January 2019	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	178	272
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1185 MHz
Core clock speed	885 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 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	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		160.0 GB / s
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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