NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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, 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 3050 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
731x more texture fill rate: 67.65 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6890 vs 3661

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2021 vs 15 May 2016
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6890 vs 3661

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 723 MHz vs 712 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 417 vs 413

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	723 MHz vs 712 MHz
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	417 vs 413

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6890

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

413

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	6890	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	413	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	50576
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8045
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4897

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 3.0
Code name	GA107	Amethyst
Launch date	2021	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	192	272
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2048
Pixel fill rate	42.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	250 Watt
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Transistor count		5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	IGP
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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