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.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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: 440 vs 417
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6742 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	440 vs 417
PassMark - G3D Mark	6742 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

440

417

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6742

3661

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G2D Mark	440	417
PassMark - G3D Mark	6742	3661
Geekbench - OpenCL	39886

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
Enduro