AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370X 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: 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 941 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 82.4 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
  • 3.6x better floating-point performance: 2,637 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Launch date 27 August 2015 vs 27 January 2014
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1030 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate 82.4 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,637 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

  • 5.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 180 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Name AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce 825M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1139.703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.39
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 88.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 337.583
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348
PassMark - G3D Mark 784
PassMark - G2D Mark 261
Geekbench - OpenCL 15796

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name Trinidad GK208
Launch date 27 August 2015 27 January 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 515 758
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1030 MHz 941 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,637 gflops 722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 384
Texture fill rate 82.4 GTexel / s 30.11 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 1300 Million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 221 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0