AMD Radeon R9 M485X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 M485X sales 14 May 2016. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 3 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 0 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 250 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 M485X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	401
Value for money	0.76
Architecture	GCN 3 (2014−2016)
GPU code name	Amethyst
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	14 May 2016 (7 years old)
Current price	$2500	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Radeon R9 M485X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 M485X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	723 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	5,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	92.54	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	2,961 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 M485X'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
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 M485X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	0 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 M485X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 M485X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.3
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 M485X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R9 M485X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Performance in popular games

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R9 M485X performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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