NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and ATI Radeon HD 4250 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

ATI Radeon HD 4250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 594 MHz
12.7x more texture fill rate: 30.11 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
9.6x more pipelines: 384 vs 40
15.2x better floating-point performance: 722.7 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 782 vs 123

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 25 February 2009
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 40
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	782 vs 123

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4250

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 408 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	408 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

408

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	ATI Radeon HD 4250
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	123
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	408
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		782

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	ATI Radeon HD 4250
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GK208	RV620
Launch date	27 January 2014	25 February 2009
Place in performance rating	790	793
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	40
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0