Radeon Instinct MI250 vs GeForce GTX 485M

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	550	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.43	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code name	N12E-GTX-A1	Aldebaran
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	6 January 2010 (14 years ago)	8 November 2021 (2 years ago)
Current price	$163	$12340

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	13312
Core clock speed	1150 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	1700 MHz
Number of transistors	1,950 million	58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	500 Watt
Texture fill rate	36.8 billion/sec	1,414
Floating-point performance	883.2 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 485M and Radeon Instinct MI250 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
SLI options	+	no data

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 type	GDDR5	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	8192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	3.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB/s	3,277 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	N/A
Shader Model	5.1	N/A
OpenGL	4.5	N/A
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 January 2010	8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	500 Watt

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