NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and AMD Radeon R9 270X 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
5.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 180 Watt

Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 8 October 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 180 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

Around 12% higher boost clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 941 MHz
2.8x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
3.7x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4889 vs 782
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 611 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4889 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark	611 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

4889

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

611

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon R9 270X
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	4889
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	611
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.455
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.545
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1771

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208	Curacao
Launch date	27 January 2014	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	790	440
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	2,688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1280
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)