NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 95% higher core clock speed: 1410 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
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 250 Watt
2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16168 vs 3661
Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 824 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 October 2018 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	1410 MHz vs 723 MHz
Pipelines	2304 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16168 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	824 vs 417

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

16168

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

824

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	16168	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	824	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	88130
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	252.062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3729.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	27.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	154.621
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1303.435
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	22615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8875

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU106	Amethyst
Launch date	17 October 2018	15 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	140	272
Price now	$499.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	42.76
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1620 MHz
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 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
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	12.0 (12_1)	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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