NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and ATI Radeon HD 5850 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), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 941 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 151 Watt
Launch date 27 January 2014 vs 30 September 2009
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed 941 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 151 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

  • Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 52.2 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 1440 vs 384
  • 2.9x better floating-point performance: 2,088.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1979 vs 782
  • Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 402 vs 247
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33977 vs 15796
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 52.2 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1440 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,088.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1979 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark 402 vs 247
Geekbench - OpenCL 33977 vs 15796

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
782
1979
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
247
402
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
15796
33977
Name NVIDIA GeForce 825M ATI Radeon HD 5850
PassMark - G3D Mark 782 1979
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 402
Geekbench - OpenCL 15796 33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 825M ATI Radeon HD 5850

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GK208 Cypress
Launch date 27 January 2014 30 September 2009
Place in performance rating 790 757
Type Laptop Desktop
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Boost clock speed 941 MHz 725 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 722.7 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 1440
Texture fill rate 30.11 GTexel / s 52.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 151 Watt
Transistor count 1300 Million 2,154 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity