NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 680 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
4.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 3349

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 680 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796 vs 3349

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
2.5x more pipelines: 960 vs 384
Around 81% better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2270 vs 782
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2270 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

2270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

656

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

15796

3349

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	2270
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	656
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796	3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		617.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		117.801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208	Blackcomb
Launch date	27 January 2014	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	788	791
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	960
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0