GeForce GTX 485M vs Radeon HD 6850M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 485M |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850M |
| 50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 485M . |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 485M | | Radeon HD 6850M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF104 (N12E-GTX-A1) | vs | Granville (Granville PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 332 mm² | vs | 166 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,950 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 800 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 575 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 485M | | Radeon HD 6850M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 750 MHz
3000 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 485M | | Radeon HD 6850M | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Jan 2011 | vs | 4 Jan 2011 |
GeForce GTX 485M
9.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850M
10.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 485M
36.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850M
27.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 485M
96.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850M
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 485M
883.20 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850M
1080.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better