NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 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 3050 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 723 MHz
894.7x more texture fill rate: 82.80 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
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
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10129 vs 3661
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 497 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 May 2021 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate	82.80 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2560 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	10129 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	497 vs 417

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M485X

2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

10129

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

497

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	10129	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	497	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	57847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	229.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2082.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	134.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	599.217
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16098
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16098
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	452

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 3.0
Code name	GA106	Amethyst
Launch date	11 May 2021	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	279	280
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1035 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	82.80 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	5.299 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.299 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	2048
Pixel fill rate	49.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	82.80 GTexel/s	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 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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