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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 485M SLI sales 6 January 2011. This is Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 100 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 14.41 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Gaming AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 485M SLI's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

246

Architecture

Fermi

Code name

N11E-GTX-A1

Type

Laptop

Release date

6 January 2011

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 485M SLI's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 485M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

768

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

575 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 485M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 485M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Shared memory

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 485M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 485M SLI. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

14.41

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

5334.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

24830.00

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 485M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

3.14

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

low / 768p

209.50

medium / 768p

96.70

high / 768p

78.60

ultra / 1080p

41.40

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

low / 768p

158.20

medium / 768p

92.80

high / 768p

76.70

ultra / 1080p

43.30

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 485M SLI performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI

99.79 %

AMD FirePro V7900

99.38 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

98.54 %

AMD Radeon HD 6930

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 485M SLI from AMD is Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our rating.