Qualcomm Adreno X2-85 vs Radeon R9 M485X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking519not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.79no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)no data
GPU code nameAmethystno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (9 years ago)29 September 2025 (less than a year 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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed723 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattno data
Texture fill rate92.54no data
Floating-point processing power2.961 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs128no data
L1 Cache512 KBno data
L2 Cache512 KBno data

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
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)no data
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 29 September 2025

Qualcomm Adreno X2-85 has an age advantage of 9 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M485X and Qualcomm Adreno X2-85. We've got no test results to judge.

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