AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
3.5x more texture fill rate: 104.5 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
4.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 384
4.6x better floating-point performance: 3,344 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5562 vs 782
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 March 2014 vs 27 January 2014
Texture fill rate	104.5 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 384
Floating-point performance	3,344 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5562 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark	665 vs 247

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 941 MHz vs 933 MHz
6.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 200 Watt
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Boost clock speed	941 MHz vs 933 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 825M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5562

782

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

665

247

Name	AMD Radeon R9 280	NVIDIA GeForce 825M
PassMark - G3D Mark	5562	782
PassMark - G2D Mark	665	247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	365.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2009
Geekbench - OpenCL		15796

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 280	NVIDIA GeForce 825M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Tahiti	GK208
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	4 March 2014	27 January 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	423	790
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	933 MHz	941 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,344 gflops	722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1792	384
Stream Processors	1792
Texture fill rate	104.5 GTexel / s	30.11 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	1300 Million
Core clock speed		850 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	275 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	240 GB/s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)