AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce 825M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1266 MHz vs 941 MHz
6.1x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 2304 vs 384
8.1x better floating-point performance: 5,834 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36624 vs 15796

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 September 2016 vs 27 January 2014
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 384
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624 vs 15796

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

36624

15796

Name	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 825M
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624	15796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3208
PassMark - G3D Mark		782
PassMark - G2D Mark		247

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 825M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Ellesmere	GK208
Launch date	27 September 2016	27 January 2014
Place in performance rating	501	790
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz	941 MHz
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops	722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	384
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s	30.11 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	1300 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0