Radeon E9260 MXM vs GeForce GTX 485M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking579not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.26no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGF104Baffin
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)27 September 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384896
Core clock speed1150 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate36.8057.60
Floating-point processing power0.8832 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth96.0 GB/s112.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 27 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 50 Watt

E9260 MXM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 485M and Radeon E9260 MXM. We've got no test results to judge.


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