NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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 2080 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 723 MHz
Around 44% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
2.4x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13147 vs 3661
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 536 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 January 2019 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 723 MHz
Pipelines	2944 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13147 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	536 vs 417

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13147

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

536

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	13147	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	536	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	81953
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8060
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8060
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7990

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU104B	Amethyst
Launch date	29 January 2019	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	142	272
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1095 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2944	2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	13,600 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)
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
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	12000 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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