NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and ATI Radeon HD 5870 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

ATI Radeon HD 5870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 941 MHz vs 850 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 188 Watt
8.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 1852

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 23 September 2009
Boost clock speed	941 MHz vs 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 188 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796 vs 1852

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

2.3x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
4.2x more pipelines: 1600 vs 384
3.8x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2216 vs 782
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 408 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2216 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark	408 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

2216

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

408

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

15796

1852

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	ATI Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	2216
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	408
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796	1852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1336.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		245.813
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	ATI Radeon HD 5870
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK208	Cypress
Launch date	27 January 2014	23 September 2009
Place in performance rating	790	792
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz	850 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	1600
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	188 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		282 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	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity