NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

  • 923.3x more texture fill rate: 85.44 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
  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 417
  • Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6770 vs 3661
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 vs 417
PassMark - G3D Mark 6770 vs 3661

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M485X

  • Around 66% higher core clock speed: 723 MHz vs 435 MHz
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 723 MHz vs 435 MHz
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
441
417
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6770
3661
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 417
PassMark - G3D Mark 6770 3661
Geekbench - OpenCL 39800

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 3.0
Code name GA107S Amethyst
Place in performance rating 272 275
Launch date 15 May 2016
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz
Core clock speed 435 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2048
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 250 Watt
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops
Transistor count 5,000 million

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 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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