NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 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 Quadro RTX 8000

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 723 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19370 vs 3661
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 869 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 August 2018 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	1005 MHz vs 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	19370 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	869 vs 417

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

19370

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

869

417

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	19370	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	869	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	136722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	401.574
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	6432.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	43.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	215.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2101.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3290
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU102	Amethyst
Launch date	13 August 2018	15 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$9,999
Place in performance rating	103	272
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	18,600 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Pipelines		2048
Texture fill rate		92.54 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	5000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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