NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
4.3x more texture fill rate: 30.11 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
2.6x better floating-point performance: 722.7 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 782 vs 277
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 202

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 21 December 2013
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	782 vs 277
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 202

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 33 Watt

Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 850 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

277

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

202

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	277
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	202
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208	Caicos
Launch date	27 January 2014	21 December 2013
Place in performance rating	790	834
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	875 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
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	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0